transcription
Americannoun
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the act or process of transcribing.
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something transcribed.
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a transcript; copy.
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Music.
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the arrangement of a composition for a medium other than that for which it was originally written.
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a composition so arranged.
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Radio and Television. a recording made especially for broadcasting.
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Genetics. the process by which genetic information on a strand of DNA is used to synthesize a strand of complementary RNA.
noun
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the act or an instance of transcribing or the state of being transcribed
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something transcribed
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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
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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.
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Other Word Forms
- mistranscription noun
- nontranscription noun
- nontranscriptive adjective
- pretranscription noun
- retranscription noun
- transcriptional adjective
- transcriptionally adverb
- transcriptive adjective
- transcriptively adverb
- transscriptionist noun
Etymology
Origin of transcription
First recorded in 1590–1600, transcription is from the Latin word trānscrīptiōn- (stem of trānscrīptiō ). See transcript, -ion
Example Sentences
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The narrator creates a small scandal by jokingly telling the story of his transcription blunder.
You probably interact with them multiple times every day by now - from the summary at the top of search engine results to your smartphone's autocorrect, photo editing software or voicemail transcription tools.
From BBC
These proteins attach to a specific section of DNA called the promoter, which marks where transcription begins.
From Science Daily
They first improved a commonly used light controlled transcription factor.
From Science Daily
Their work revealed several transcription factors, proteins that regulate gene activity, which act as switches that guide T cells toward either sustained function or exhaustion.
From Science Daily
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