Associations to the word «Transcription»

Wiktionary

TRANSCRIPTION, noun. The act or process of transcribing.
TRANSCRIPTION, noun. Something that has been transcribed, including:
TRANSCRIPTION, noun. (music) An adaptation of a composition.
TRANSCRIPTION, noun. A recorded radio or television programme.
TRANSCRIPTION, noun. (linguistics) A representation of speech sounds as phonetic symbols.
TRANSCRIPTION, noun. (genetics) The synthesis of RNA under the direction of DNA.
TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR, noun. (molecular biology) (genetics) A protein that binds to specific DNA sequences, thereby controlling the flow (or transcription) of genetic information from DNA to mRNA.

Dictionary definition

TRANSCRIPTION, noun. Something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation.
TRANSCRIPTION, 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.
TRANSCRIPTION, noun. A sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording).
TRANSCRIPTION, noun. The act of arranging and adapting a piece of music.
TRANSCRIPTION, noun. The act of making a record (especially an audio record); "she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King