n.
- The act or process of transcribing.
- Something that has been transcribed, especially:
- Music. An adaptation of a composition.
- A recorded radio or television program.
- Linguistics. A representation of speech sounds in phonetic symbols.
- Biology. The process by which messenger RNA is synthesized from a DNA template resulting in the transfer of genetic information from the DNA molecule to the messenger RNA.
transcriptionally tran·scrip'tion·al·ly adv.
transcriptionist tran·scrip'tion·ist n.
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