recording -- (a signal that encodes something (e.g., picture or sound) that has been recorded)
recording, transcription -- (the act of making a record (especially an audio record); "she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth")
recording -- (a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded)
Overview of verb record
The verb record has 5 senses
record, enter, put down -- (make a record of; set down in permanent form)
record, tape -- (register electronically; "They recorded her singing")
read, register, show, record -- (indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'")
record, register -- (be aware of; "Did you register any change when I pressed the button?")
commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise, record -- (be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead")