1 (in compounds) a machine for recording sound or pictures or both:
a tape / cassette recorder * a video recorder
seealsoFLIGHTRECORDER
2 a musical instrument in the shape of a pipe that you blow into, with holes that you cover with your fingers
3 a judge in a court of law in some parts of Britain and the US
4 a person who keeps a record of events or facts:
In natural history the careful observer and recorder was very important in the advance of the science.
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