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fixed-width - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  record
  fixed-width
  records
  row
  
     <data, database, programming> An ordered set of fields,
     usually stored contiguously.  The term is used with similar
     meaning in several different contexts.  In a file, a "record"
     probably has some fixed length, in contrast to a "line" which
     may have any length and is terminated by some End Of Line
     sequence).  A database record is also called a "row".  In a
     spreadsheet it is always called a "row".  Some programming
     languages use the term to mean a type composed of fields of
     several other types (C calls this a "struct").
  
     In all these cases, a record represents an entity with certain
     field values.
  
     Fields may be of a fixed width (bits or characters) or
     they may be separated by a delimiter character, often
     comma (CSV) or HT (TSV).
  
     In a database the list of values of a given field from all
     records is called a column.
  
     (2002-03-22)