transcription

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Etymology

FromMiddle Frenchtranscription,or directly fromLatintranscriptiōnem,fromtrānscrībō(“transcribe”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):/tɹænˈskɹɪpʃən/
Audio(US): (file)
Rhymes:-ɪpʃən
Hyphenation:tran‧scrip‧tion

Noun

transcription(countableanduncountable,pluraltranscriptions)

Theactorprocessoftranscribing.
- 1610,chapter 13, inJohn Healey,transl.,The Citie of God,London: George Eld, translation ofDe civitate Dei contra paganosbySt. Augustine,page548:
  One might eaſier beleeue that the error was committed in thetranſcriptionof the copy fromPtolomieslibrary, and ſo that it had a ſucceſſiue propagation through all the copies diſperſed.
- 1961December, “Motive Power Miscellany: London Midland Region”, inTrains Illustrated,page759:
  [...] the error originated in a mistakentranscription,as the locomotive involved was No. 61271 (a B1 4-6-0), not No. 61771.
- 2003,James Holstein, Jaber F. Gubrium,Inside Interviewing: New Lenses, New Concerns,SAGE,→ISBN,page268:
  In other words, data are (re)constructed in the process oftranscriptionas a result of multiple decisions that reflect both theoretical and ostensibly pragmatic considerations.
Something that has beentranscribed,including:
1. (music)Anadaptationof acomposition.
  Theseframe taleinterludes frequently includetranscriptionsof Italian folk songs.
  - 2013,Gerald Abraham,Slavonic and Romantic Music: Essays and Studies,Faber & Faber,→ISBN:
    In other words, theadantinowas written first as an independent piece; it is, moreover, hardly more than an elaboratedtranscriptionof the little song, ‘Im Herbste’, written in 1828, with its two exactly similar strophes (each only five bars long) and four-bar piano epilogue.
2. (broadcasting)Arecordedradioortelevisionprogramme.
  - 1999,William L. Bird,"Better Living": Advertising, Media and the New Vocabulary of Business Leadership, 1935-1955,Northwestern University Press,→ISBN:
    From the outset, Selvage had hoped to interest NBC or CBS in broadcasting theAmerican Family Robinsonon a sustaining basis. Neither did, and the series ended up intranscription,recorded and circulated to individual stations by the World Broadcasting System.
3. (linguistics)Arepresentationofspeechsoundsasphoneticsymbols.
  - 1977,Ali M. Al Kasimi,Linguistics and Bilingual Dictionaries,Brill Archive,→ISBN,page37:
    While the sounds of the language [English] undergo constant change and growth, the writing system is rarely reviewed or adapted to recent changes in speech. Consequently, there is a patent need for atranscriptionin linguistic research and dictionaries.
(obsolete)Awrittendocument.
- 1638,Richard Braithwait,A Survey Of History: Or, A Nursery for Gentry,London: I. Okes,page27:
  THeſe Ages have beene, and are to this day, much indebted toTranſcriptions.Inventions are oft-times ſlow, where the application of things invented to the preſent State ſeemes more facile and eaſie : Hereto then ſhould theScopeofHiſtoriestend ; not onely to perſonate the Acts of men upon the Theater of this world, but likewiſe to cull out ſuch Lawes, Orders, and Precepts, as well Morall as Divine, which may benefit their preſent eſtate.
(genetics)ThesynthesisofRNAunder the direction ofDNA.
- 2001,Richard Kowles,Solving Problems in Genetics,Springer Science & Business Media,→ISBN,page315:
  The process in which the DNA molecule unwinds, separates its two polynucleotide strands, and synthesizes an RNA molecule from one of these DNA strands is calledtranscription.Genes transcribe chemical messages in the form of RNA molecules.Transcriptionbegins at some site in the DNA duplex and ends at some other point.