transcription

[tran-skrip-shuhn]

noun

1. the act or process of transcribing.

2. something transcribed.

3. a transcript; copy.

4. Music.

   1. the arrangement of a composition for a medium other than that for which it was originally written.

   2. a composition so arranged.

5. Radio and Television.,  a recording made especially for broadcasting.

6. Genetics.,  the process by which genetic information on a strand of DNA is used to synthesize a strand of complementary RNA.

transcription

/ trænˈskrɪpʃən /

noun

1. the act or an instance of transcribing or the state of being transcribed

2. something transcribed

3. a representation in writing of the actual pronunciation of a speech sound, word, or piece of continuous text, using not a conventional orthography but a symbol or set of symbols specially designated as standing for corresponding phonetic values

transcription

1. The process in a cell by which genetic material is copied from a strand of DNA to a complementary strand of RNA (called messenger RNA). In eukaryotes, transcription takes place in the nucleus before messenger RNA is transported to the ribosomes for protein synthesis.

2. Compare translation

Other Word Forms

• transcriptional adjective
• transcriptionally adverb
• transscriptionist noun
• transcriptive adjective
• transcriptively adverb
• mistranscription noun
• nontranscription noun
• nontranscriptive adjective
• pretranscription noun
• retranscription noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of transcription¹

First recorded in 1590–1600, transcription is from the Latin word trānscrīptiōn- (stem of trānscrīptiō ). See transcript, -ion

Example Sentences

They focused on the mechanisms of transcription and gene regulation rather than the genes themselves.

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Hildegard is best known for the music she produced in her Rhineland German monastery and for the transcriptions of her luminous visions.

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“These similarities are further reflected in the side-by-side transcriptions of the musical scores for the Udio file and the original recording.”

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The discovery may also explain a long-observed burst in gene transcription that occurs near the end of mitosis.

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The new technique developed by the team uses PPRHs to halt the transcription of specific genes, effectively silencing their expression.

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Related Words

• breeding 
• copy 
• facsimile 
• imitation 
• photocopy 
• photograph 
• picture 
• print 
• propagation 
• recreation 
• replica 
• replication