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registry, n. ~ A division within an organization responsible for the recording, con- trol, and maintenance of records.

registry principle ~ see: original order

registry system, n.~ The policies and procedures that govern the recording, control, and maintenance of records within an organization through the use of registers, lists, and indexes.

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regulation, n.~ 1. The process of controlling something through rule or procedure. –

2. A rule that is issued by an authorized government agency and that has the force of law.

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  NT: administrative regulation
  
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  RT: law
  
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  Notes: A regulation² issued by a federal agency is published in the Code of Federal Regulations.
  

reintegration, n.~ The process of refiling materials that were misfiled or missing.

related term, n. ~ A cross-reference pointing to an associated concept of similar specificity in a hierarchy.

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  Notes: Related terms are part of the syndetic structure used in a thesaurus, especially one constructed using the ANSI Z39.19 standard, Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Thesauri. Related terms are reciprocal to each other. For example, an entry for ‘camera’ may include a related-term reference to ‘photography’, in which case the entry for ‘photography’ would have a related-term reference to the entry for ‘camera’.
  

relational database, n.~ Information that has been organized, structured, and stored into tables of rows and columns (flat files) so that related data elements from dif- ferent tables can be manipulated and extracted for various purposes.

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  Notes: The relational database model was developed by Edgar Codd about 1970. Each table consists of named columns (attributes). A logical record consists of fields taken from related rows in different tables.
  

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