Transcription

The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions.

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 s

The process by which messenger RNA is synthesized from a DNA template

(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

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