transcription - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'transcription' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Transcription

[ n.]

- The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions.
- A copy; a transcript.
- 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.

Meaning of 'transcription' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . transcription

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- the act of making a record (especially an audio record)

Example in sentence:

she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth

Nearby Words:

trabea trabeae trabeated trabeation trabecula trabeculae trabecular trabeculate trabu trace

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Transcription
Transcription is the process in which a complementary single stranded mRNA is synthesized from one of the DNA strands.

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