Sound or motion captured so it can be met again. A recording returns the record, never the moment.
Built on record, from Latin recordari (to call back to heart); a recording returns the record of a sound or a motion, never the moment itself, which the root never promised it could hold.
Sound or motion captured so it can be met again. The root's calling-back is honest about its limits: a recording returns the record, and the moment it was taken from stays where it was.