Transcription

[træn'skrɪpʃ(ə)n;trɑːn-] or [træn'skrɪpʃən]

Definition

(noun.) a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording).

(noun.) something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation.

(noun.) (genetics) the organic process whereby the DNA sequence in a gene is copied into mRNA; the process whereby a base sequence of messenger RNA is synthesized on a template of complementary DNA.

Typist: Melville--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions.

(n.) A copy; a transcript.

(n.) An arrangement of a composition for some other instrument or voice than that for which it was originally written, as the translating of a song, a vocal or instrumental quartet, or even an orchestral work, into a piece for the piano; an adaptation; an arrangement; -- a name applied by modern composers for the piano to a more or less fanciful and ornate reproduction on their own instrument of a song or other piece not originally intended for it; as, Liszt's transcriptions of songs by Schubert.

Edited by Charlene

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Copying.[2]. (Mus.) Adaptation (to one instrument of a piece intended for another, or for the voice), rearrangement, reproduction.

Edited by Everett