transcription
/tɹænˈskɹɪpʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act or process of transcribing, or converting spoken (or sometimes signed) language to the written form.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "One might eaſier beleeue that the error was committed in the tranſcription of the copy from Ptolomies library, and ſo that it had a ſucceſſiue propagation through all the copies diſperſed."
- "[...] the error originated in a mistaken transcription, as the locomotive involved was No. 61271 (a B1 4-6-0), not No. 61771."
- "In other words, data are (re)constructed in the process of transcription as a result of multiple decisions that reflect both theoretical and ostensibly pragmatic considerations."
- "These frame tale interludes frequently include transcriptions of Italian folk songs."
- "In other words, the adantino was written first as an independent piece; it is, moreover, hardly more than an elaborated transcription of the little song, ‘Im Herbste’, written in 1828, with its two exactly similar strophes (each only five bars long) and four-bar piano epilogue."
- "From the outset, Selvage had hoped to interest NBC or CBS in broadcasting the American Family Robinson on a sustaining basis. Neither did, and the series ended up in transcription, recorded and circulated to individual stations by the World Broadcasting System."
Etymology
From Middle French transcription, or directly from Latin transcriptiōnem, from trānscrībō (“transcribe”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: transcription, transcriptiōnem
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transliteration
musical dictation