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noun
- the act or process of recording: the recordation of documents pertaining to copyright ownership.
late 14c., “faculty of remembering,” Old French recordacion “record, memory” (14c.) or directly from Latin recordationem (nominative recordatio), noun of action from past participle stem of recordari (see record (v.)). Meaning “act or process of committing to writing” is c.1810.