Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any characteristic or accomplishment that exceeds all other instances of that characteristic or accomplishment. 2 (context sports English) The world's best score or time for a certain event.
WordNet
n. the best record in the whole world
Wikipedia
A world record is usually the best global performance ever recorded and officially verified in a specific skill or sport. The book Guinness World Records collates and publishes notable records of all types, from first and best to worst human achievements, to extremes in the natural world and beyond. The website RecordSetter has begun to take on the same territory, but with a more inclusive policy, as users submit videos of record attempts in order to try to receive a world record. The website challengers.guinnessworldrecords.com is similar to RecordSetter, as the record attempts are judged by Guinness World Records adjudicators, but the records to attempt are provided beforehand.
World Record is the seventh studio album by Van der Graaf Generator, originally released in 1976 on Charisma Records. Bonus tracks were added for the 2005 rerelease.
It was the last album recorded by the classic line-up of the band until their 2005 reunion: Hugh Banton and David Jackson departed in 1976 and 1977 respectively. Banton's departure owed to financial troubles and his then-recent marriage, but he stayed to finish touring commitments. Jackson continued with Peter Hammill and Guy Evans to rehearse with the new line-up in January 1977, which featured returning bassist Nic Potter and newcomer Graham Smith (of Scottish folk-rock act String Driven Thing), but left before the next tour.
World Record is the second studio album by British rock band Lower Than Atlantis.
A world record is usually the best global performance ever recorded and verified in a specific skill or sport.
World Record may also refer to:
- World Record (Lower Than Atlantis album) (2011)
- World Record (Van der Graaf Generator album) (1976)
- "World Record" (The Animatrix), a segment of The Animatrix
- World Record Club, a defunct UK mail-order record company
Usage examples of "world record".
Now here's a Norwegian man who sat for two hundred and two hours in a window box on his terrace, breaking the world record by thirty-some-odd hours.
Fortunately Emma George's world record-breaking feats in the pole vault kept the spotlight off Freeman's demise.
An Olympic committee of judges would have been impressed, he must have set a new world record for the underwater dash.
It really is a pity that you won both the fencing tournament and made a world record at the javelin accuracy event on your first time out.
Karol was only thirty years short of the current world record for longevity, but he still thought of Conrad Helier as the product of an earlier generation: a generation that was now lost to history.