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English Dictionary: transcription	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
transcription n something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation Synonym(s): transcription, written text (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 a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording) the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music Synonym(s): arrangement, arranging, transcription the act of making a record (especially an audio record); "she watched the recording from a sound-proof booth" Synonym(s): recording, transcription
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Transcription \Transcrip"tion\ (tr[acr]nskr[icr]p"sh[ucr]n), n. [Cf. F. transcription, L. transcriptio a transfer.] 1. The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions. 2. A copy; a transcript. --Walton. 3. (Mus.) An arrangement of a composition for some other instrument or voice than that for which it was originally written, as the translating of a song, a vocal or instrumental quartet, or even an orchestral work, into a piece for the piano; an adaptation; an arrangement; -- a name applied by modern composers for the piano to a more or less fanciful and ornate reproduction on their own instrument of a song or other piece not originally intended for it; as, Liszt's transcriptions of songs by Schubert.