The phrase "a physical record" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a tangible document or item that contains information or data, as opposed to a digital or electronic version.
Example: "The company maintains a physical record of all transactions for auditing purposes."
Alternatives: "a tangible record" or "a hard copy".
The result is colonnadus interruptus, a wonderful document of the human spirit, a physical record of the pressures and conflicts that make a city.
"Without a physical record of votes cast, how will election officials in 2004 be able to launch an effective, honest recount in a closely contested election?
"People understood it was important to save and have a physical record of the events," said Marilyn Zoidis, another curator at the Smithsonian and the designer of the exhibit.
Though West has broken his promises about his album's availability, he is unlikely to go back on his vow that it won't be released as a physical record or CD.
A lot of information has been digitized, but there are still plenty of counties where, if you've committed a crime, they'll have a physical record alone.
I woke up to 900 words of notes in my BlackBerry (it was 2010, and ex-consultants like me had BlackBerrys), dream-infused and timestamped in 15-minute intervals, a physical record of how I had woken up, typed an idea rapidly into my phone, laid back down, and repeated the process over and over again.
Record companies come and go, catalogues expand and shrink, and the virtue of owning a physical recording that's offline and on the shelf is that, once you've got it, it's available to you forever, independent of the vagaries of the music or movie industry.
Jackson explains his motivation for putting such effort into this release, stating, "Every copy of a physical recording is different, a real object that has its own little story a one of a kind, personalised by the effort you put in to purchase it, each time you touch it, and the unique ritual that goes along with playing it.
The books amount to an archiving of an archive: they are an attempt to create a permanent physical record of a trove of important documents that MOMA, as the show implies, has abandoned in its aggrandizing ambitions.
For all its space-age decor, it is a demanding, physical record.
This then gets wirelessly printed out so you get a printed physical record of your virtual activities, so you can look back at them and laugh with your hologrammed friends when you're old and half cyborg.
