MEANING
1. The process of putting spoken words or other sounds into written form, or the resulting record.
2. A written musical arrangement adapted from an existing work, often for different instruments or voices.
3. The biological process in which information in DNA is copied into an RNA molecule.
Use it for
describing how interviews become analyzable written material; distinguishing a written record from the original recording; explaining choices about pauses, repetitions or notationSeparates recording speech in writing from musical arrangement and the copying of genetic information. Academic functions: Research / Methodology.
Words that belong together
- verbatim transcription
- interview transcription
- phonetic transcription
On the page
The transcription retained pauses and repetitions relevant to the interaction.
Researchers checked the interview transcription against the recording before coding it.
The piano transcription preserves the melody while changing the distribution of voices.
The analysis compares the orchestral work with its later transcription for a smaller ensemble.
The review distinguishes gene transcription from the later translation of RNA into protein.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- transcription
Usage notes
Countable for a written record or arrangement: transcription/transcriptions. Usually uncountable for the process, including the biological sense. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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