Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Something transcribed, especially a written, typewritten, or printed copy.
  • noun A record of a student's academic performance issued by an institution of learning.
  • noun Biology A sequence of RNA produced by transcription.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A writing made from and according to an original; a copy.
  • noun A copy of any kind; an imitation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun That which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy.
  • noun A copy of any kind; an imitation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Something which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy.
  • noun A copy of any kind; an imitation.
  • noun A written version of what was said orally; as, a transcript of a trial.
  • noun genetics A sequence of RNA produced by transcription
  • noun education An inventory of the courses taken and grades earned of a student alleged throughout a course.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun something that has been transcribed; a written record (usually typewritten) of dictated or recorded speech
  • noun a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Medieval Latin trānscrīptum, from Latin, neuter past participle of trānscrībere, to transcribe; see transcribe.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin transcriptum (from transcribere).

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  • Included along with the transcript is a chronology of Champ sightings, notes on the limnology of Lake Champlain, and some reprints of historical newspaper accounts involving Champ-related phenomena.

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  • Metadata at the segment level includes the categories already mentioned from the search page, plus such details as the amount of motion in the segment and whether or not a transcript is available.

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  • Providing a transcript is a good idea for an educational web site.

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  • Providing a transcript is a good idea for an educational web site.

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  • Binghamton, N.Y., area, has posted what it describes as a transcript of a speech that Mr. Martens delivered last year at Union College in Schenectady in which he urges the Department of Environmental Conservation to "go slow" on fracking until the E.P.A.'s conclusions are clear.

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  • Binghamton, N.Y., area, has posted what it describes as a transcript of a speech that Mr. Martens delivered last year at Union College in Schenectady in which he urges the Department of Environmental Conservation to "go slow" on fracking until the E.P.A.'s conclusions are clear.

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  • Taraf also released what it described as the transcript of recordings of a March 2003 meeting at Istanbul's Selimiye barracks attended by more than 160 officers, including two dozen generals.

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  • But if you look at the original transcript is was first of all, clearly a joke.

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  • Also, here's the transcript from a live chat in which Post reporter Keith Alexander discussed the case.

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