Definition of "registries" [registries]

• Plural form of registry. (noun)

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• "Another benefit of registries is that they ensure timely immunizations through reminders to parents and healthcare professionals."
• "But they referred to their systems as 'registries' - not as 'electronic health records' or 'EMRs'."
• "Court-ordered removal or replacement of entries from the series of interlocking databases that reside in domain name servers and domain name registries around the globe undermines the principle of domain name universality -- the principle that all domain name servers, wherever they may be located across the network, will return the same answer when queried with respect to the Internet address of any specific domain name."