registry

English

Noun

Wikipedia registry (plural registries)

1. A building in which things are registered or where registers are kept.
2. A record; an account; a register.

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3. The act of registering; registration.
4. (computing) A database of configurations etc. maintained by the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Related terms

• register
• registrar

Translations

building

• Finnish: rekisteri (fi)

register

• Finnish: rekisteri (fi)

registration

• Finnish: rekisteröinti (fi), rekisteröityminen (fi)

database

• Finnish: rekisteri (fi)