1. a written or printed representation of something.
▪ the action or process of transcribing something: "the funding covers transcription of nearly illegible photocopies"
▪ an arrangement of a piece of music for a different instrument, voice, or number of these: "a transcription for voice and lute"
▪ a form in which a speech sound or a foreign character is represented.
▪ the process by which genetic information represented by a sequence of DNA nucleotides is copied into newly synthesized molecules of RNA, with the DNA serving as a template.
Word Originlate 16th century: from French, or from Latin transcriptio(n-), from the verb transcribere (see transcribe).