transcription

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English

Etymology

From Middle French transcription, or directly from Latin transcriptiōnem, from trānscrībō (“transcribe”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

transcription (countable and uncountable, plural transcriptions)

1. The act or process of transcribing.
2. Something that has been transcribed, including:
   1. (music) An adaptation of a composition.

      These frame tale interludes frequently include transcriptions of Italian folk songs.
   2. (broadcasting) A recorded radio or television programme.
   3. (linguistics) A representation of speech sounds as phonetic symbols.
3. (obsolete) A written document.
4. (genetics) The synthesis of RNA under the direction of DNA.

Coordinate terms

• musical dictation

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• transliteration

References

• “transcription”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃s.kʁip.sjɔ̃/

Noun

transcription f (plural transcriptions)

1. transcription (all senses)

Descendants

• → Turkish: transkripsiyon

Further reading

• “transcription”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.