A transcription is the document made by copying down in writing something that you listen to, like audio tapes, an interview, or comments made during a meeting.
If you watch TV crime dramas, you’ve probably seen someone take a transcription while cops interview a suspect — that person is writing down all the things that are said. Transcription can also refer to the process of transcribing. If you’re a musician, you probably know that transcription can also describe adapting a piece of music for different instruments, like a cello transcription of a Beatles song.
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something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation
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the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music
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the act of making a record (especially an audio record)
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(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
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