Tran*scrip"tion (trăn*skr&ibreve;p"shŭn), n. [Cf. F. transcription, L. transcriptio a transfer.] 1. The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions.

2. A copy; a transcript. Walton.

3. (Mus.) 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 songs by Schubert.

Tran*scrip"tion (trăn*skr&ibreve;p"shŭn), n. [Cf. F. transcription, L. transcriptio a transfer.] 1. The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions.

2. A copy; a transcript. Walton.

3. (Mus.) 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 songs by Schubert.

• the act or process of transcribing
  
• something that has been transcribed, especially . .
  
• #(music) an adaptation of a composition
  
• # a recorded radio or television programme
  
• #(linguistics) a representation of speech sounds as phonetic symbols
  
• (biology) the process by which messenger RNA is synthesized from DNA
  
• a job as medical transcriptionist or court reporter
  
• a computer program converting voice to action as in robotics or to text as in AI artificial intelligence