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Transcription

/ˌtræn.skrɪpˈeɪ.ʃən/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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  1. 1

    The act or process of making a written copy of spoken material.

    "The secretary prepared a careful transcription of the recorded interview."

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Derived from the Latin 'transcriptio', stemming from 'transcribere' meaning 'to transfer, copy, or write across', formed by combining 'trans-' (across) and 'scribere' (to write). Entering Middle English in the late 14th century, the term initially denoted the copying of a text before evolving in the 20th century to encompass the conversion of spoken audio into written text and the biological process of copying genetic information.

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