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Definition of Transcription

1. Noun. Something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation.

2. 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.

3. Noun. A sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording).

4. Noun. The act of arranging and adapting a piece of music.

5. Noun. The act of making a record (especially an audio record). "She watched the recording from a sound-proof booth"

Definition of Transcription

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

Definition of Transcription

1. Noun. The act or process of transcribing. ¹

2. Noun. Something that has been transcribed, including: ¹

3. Noun. (genetics) The synthesis of RNA under the direction of DNA. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Transcription

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Transcription

1. Synthesis of RNA by RNA polymerases using a DNA template. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Transcription

transcreation transcreations transcribable transcribbler transcribblers transcribe transcribed transcriber transcribers transcribes

transcribing transcript transcriptase transcriptases transcripted transcription (current term) transcription factor transcription factor ap-1 transcription factors transcription unit

transcriptional transcriptional control transcriptional silencing transcriptionally transcriptionist transcriptionists transcriptions transcriptive transcriptome transcriptomes

Literary usage of Transcription

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Molecular Neurobiology: Proceedings of the 2nd NIMH Conference by Steven Zalcman (1995)
"In mature neurons IEG transcription is stimulated by a range of ... Many IEGs encode transcription factors that are thought to control the cell's ..."

2. The Practical Study of Languages: A Guide for Teachers and Learners by Henry Sweet (1906)
"... in the transcription of remoter languages as soon as the results of our experience with European languages become known to Orientalists and others, ..."

3. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"(These 12' works may be had in either two hand or four hand arrangements, or for two pianos. ) " Einzug der Gäste auf Wartburg," Tannhäuser transcription; ..."

4. Oxygen/Nitrogen Radicals and Cellular Injury edited by Kenneth B. Adler, Robert D. Devlin, Val Vallyathan (2000)
"-817 -796 -790 -434 I -102 I -41 +1 Having demonstrated transcription increases using the global nuclear run-on assay, the next goal was to determine ..."

5. Stability and Variation in Hopi Song by George List (1993)
"I had brought with me a copy of Curtis's transcription of this lullaby from ... We were able to use her textual transcription to distinguish one phrase from ..."

6. The New Testament in the original Greek by Brooke Foss Westcott, Fenton John Anthony Hort (1896)
"This general proposition respecting the average results of transcription requires to ... The act of transcription may under different circumstances involve ..."

7. The Early English Customs System: A Documentary Study of the Institutional by Norman Scott Brien Gras (1918)
"Rules of transcription adopted. To many the presentation of documentary raw material ... The first in importance and difficulty was the transcription of the ..."

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