Transkription — meaning in English
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English meaning
- transcription noun The act of converting speech or recorded sound into written text.
- transliteration noun The process of writing a word from one alphabet using the letters of another, so that the sounds are preserved rather than the meaning translated.
Senses
Transkription is used for these senses in English:
- transcription (linguistics) A representation of speech sounds as phonetic symbols.
- transcription (genetics) The synthesis of RNA under the direction of DNA.
- transliteration (linguistics, translation studies) The act or product of transliterating, of representing letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script.
transcription — full definition
- noun The act of converting speech or recorded sound into written text.
- noun (biology) The process by which a cell copies DNA into RNA.
transliteration — full definition
- noun The process of writing a word from one alphabet using the letters of another, so that the sounds are preserved rather than the meaning translated.
- noun A particular word or text that has been rendered in another alphabet in this way.