record

<data, database> An ordered set of fields. The term is used in both files (where a record is also called a "line") and databases (where it is also called a "row"). In a spreadsheet it is always called a "row". In all these cases the records represent different entities with different values for the attributes represented by the fields.

Fields may be of a fixed width (bits or characters) or they may be separated by a delimiter character, often comma (CSV) or HT (TSV).

The collection of all values of a given field from all records is called a column.

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