Record
A group of related fields (columns) of information treated as a unit and arranged in a horizontal line in a table or spreadsheet.
The form used to store business information (e.g. open activities, activity history, linked records).
An account of an economic transaction.
The data that defines and describes the parties, products, locations, and activities that compose the economic transaction.
A collection of related data items. For example, a company may store information about each employee in a single record. Each record consists of several fields—a field for the name, a field for a Social Security number, and so on. The Pascal keyword record corresponds to struct in C.
⠀ Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms (Vol. 1) John C. Rigdon, 2016 – 1471 c. – 1026