transcription
transcription is a 13-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions.
- noun. A copy; a transcript.
- noun. 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.
- noun. the act of making a record (especially an audio record)
"she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth"
- noun. the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music
- 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
Synonyms
recording, arrangement, arranging
Common word forms
transcriptions, transcriptional
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