transcription

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

• noun The act or process of transcribing.
• noun Something that has been transcribed, especially.
• noun Music An adaptation of a composition.
• noun A recorded radio or television program.
• noun Linguistics A representation of speech sounds in phonetic symbols.
• noun Genetics The synthesis of messenger RNA from a DNA template through the formation of base pairs, resulting in a transfer of genetic information that codes for amino acid sequences composing proteins.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The act of transcribing or copying: as, errors of transcription.
• noun A copy; a transcript.
• noun In music, the arrangement (usually with more or less modification or variation) of a composition for some instrument or voice other than that for which it was originally composed. Also called scoring.

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

• noun The act or process of transcribing, or copying.
• noun A copy; a transcript.
• noun (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.

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

• noun The act or process of transcribing.
• noun Something that has been transcribed, including:
• noun genetics The synthesis of RNA under the direction of DNA.

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

• noun a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording)
• noun something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation
• noun (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
• noun the act of making a record (especially an audio record)
• noun the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music