English Explanatory Dictionary

transcription

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act or process of transcribing.
  2. Something that has been transcribed, including:
  3. An adaptation of a composition.
  4. A recorded radio or television programme.
  5. A representation of speech sounds as phonetic symbols.
  6. A written document.
  7. The synthesis of RNA under the direction of DNA.

Pronunciation

/tɹænˈskɹɪpʃən/ en-us-transcription.ogg

Word forms

transcription transcriptions

Etymology

From Middle French transcription, or directly from Latin transcriptiōnem, from trānscrībō (“transcribe”).

Related words

transliteration

Derived words

transcriptional transcriptionally transcriptionist cotranscription mistranscription posttranscription pretranscription retranscription retrotranscription teletranscription broad transcription gene transcription narrow transcription reverse transcription transcription factor
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