record

record

(rek' urd) n.

a sequence of characters or bytes in a file, treated as a unit in I/O processing. In a text file, a record may be a line or a paragraph. In a SAS data file, an observation is a record. In a catalog, an entry is a record.

record format

v.t.

1. the rule or standard by which a file is divided into records.

2. record layout.

record layout

(rek' urd lA' out) v.t.

a document that describes the location and content of the fields in a record.