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/tɹænˈskɹɪpʃən/

noun

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noun
The act of writing down speech or copying text.
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noun
Extra detail
Something that has been transcribed, including:, An adaptation of a composition.

Examples

The student made a neat transcription of the lecture notes.
These frame tale interludes frequently include transcriptions of Italian folk songs.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 1

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noun

Extra meanings

The act or process of transcribing.
Something that has been transcribed, including:
An adaptation of a composition.

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That transcription is wrong.
[...] the error originated in a mistaken transcription, as the locomotive involved was No. 61271 (a B1 4-6-0), not No. 61771.
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.

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The reporter prepared the blank of the judge's spoken verdict for the record.

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The word in print, with each source given in full.

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.
1610, chapter 13, in John Healey, transl., The Citie of God, London: George Eld, translation of De civitate Dei contra paganos by St. Augustine, page 548
[...] the error originated in a mistaken transcription, as the locomotive involved was No. 61271 (a B1 4-6-0), not No. 61771.
1961 December, “Motive Power Miscellany: London Midland Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 759
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.
2003, James Holstein, Jaber F. Gubrium, Inside Interviewing: New Lenses, New Concerns, SAGE, →ISBN, page 268
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.
2013, Gerald Abraham, Slavonic and Romantic Music: Essays and Studies, Faber & Faber, →ISBN
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.
1999, William L. Bird, "Better Living": Advertising, Media and the New Vocabulary of Business Leadership, 1935-1955, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN

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Origin

noun

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

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The reporter prepared the blank— of the judge's spoken verdict for the record.

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noun

The reporter prepared the blank of the judge's spoken verdict for the record.