( 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 recording ( e. g., from broadcast to tape recording)

something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation

the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music

a sound or television recording ( e. g., from a broadcast to a tape recording)

A copy; a transcript.

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.

A copy; the act of copying.

The act of copying: a transcript: a copy.

Act of copying; copy.

A copying; transcript.

The act of copying; a copy.

The act of copying.

Other transcription notes appear at the end of this e- text. – Khaled, A Tale of Arabia by F. Marion Crawford

Keating's accuracy in matters of fact and transcription, however, is daily becoming more apparent. – An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack

I tell you with some unwillingness, as knowing your distaste for such things, that I have received so many applications from readers and printers for a volume of poems that I have seriously taken in hand the collection, transcription, or scription of such a volume, and may do the enormity before New Year's day. – The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson

That transcription lies before me now, beginning, " The Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana has lately been called upon to investigate and decide one of the most interesting cases which has ever come under the cognizance of a judicial tribunal." – Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George Washington Cable

To let the reader distinguish such problems from any inadvertent transcription errors that remain, I have inserted notes to flag items that appear errors by Brown's own standard. – The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Then Aunt Saxon sat down to study the transcription. – The City of Fire by Grace Livingston Hill

The process of corruption in the course of frequent transcription has been transferred even to the first century. – The Canon of the Bible by Samuel Davidson

Even his earlier mistakes are instructive, for they are due not so much to actual errors in observation as to a faithful transcription of what was observed with faulty apparatus. – Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale

And now, in a very rough and fragmentary fashion, hardly attempting more than a hurried transcription of my notes, I will call attention to some three or four drawings which especially arrested my attention. – Modern Painting by George Moore

In all the monasteries which he founded, provision was made for the pursuit of sacred learning and the multiplication of books by transcription. – The Glories of Ireland by Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. Lennox

A transcription of the Data presented in Figure 12 was added to illustrate the information contained on that sheet. – A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds. Vol.3 No.2 by George H. Lowery.

The third is a transcription of the second Solo Sonata for Violin. – Johann Sebastian Bach by Johann Nikolaus Forkel and Charles Sanford Terry