<B>transcript, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a written or typewritten copy. <BR> <I>Ex. The club's secretary prepared several transcripts of minutes of the meeting.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Law.) a copy of a legal record. <DD><B> 3. </B>a copy or reproduction of anything. <BR> <I>Ex. The college wanted a transcript of the student's high-school record.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> (Genetics.) <B>=transcribe.</B> </DL>
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<B>transcriptase, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an enzyme that promotes genetic transcription. <BR> <I>Ex. The transcription processes, and the replication of DNA and of viral RNA, could be understood in terms of three distinctive enzymes: DNA-replicase, transcriptase, and RNA-replicase (Joshua Lederberg).</I> </DL>
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<B>transcription, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of transcribing; copying. <DD><B> 2. </B>a transcript; copy. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Music.) the arrangement of a composition for a different instrument or voice. <DD><B> 4a. </B>the act or process of recording something, especially music, on a phonograph record or tape for use in broadcasting. <DD><B> b. </B>the act or fact of broadcasting such a record. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Phonetics.) a written representation of speech in a system of phonetic symbols. <DD><B> 6. </B>(Genetics.) the process of forming a nucleic acid molecule by using a template of another molecule. <BR> <I>Ex. Gene transcription, whereby enzyme reactions mediate the synthesis of RNA molecules from DNA templates, has been investigated mostly in microbial organisms (Nature).</I> </DL>
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<B>transcriptional, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, having to do with, or occurring in transcription. <BR> <I>Ex. a transcriptional error.</I> adv. <B>transcriptionally.</B> </DL>
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<B>transcriptive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with transcribing, copying, or reproducing. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or like a transcript. </DL>
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<B>transcultural, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>common to all cultures. <BR> <I>Ex. transcultural phenomena.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>intercultural. <BR> <I>Ex. transcultural activities.</I> </DL>
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<B>transcurrent, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> extending or running across. adv. <B>transcurrently.</B> </DL>
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<B>transdermal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or containing drugs that seep through the skin. <BR> <I>Ex. transdermal medication, a transdermal patch.</I> </DL>
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<B>transduce, </B>transitive verb, <B>-duced,</B> <B>-ducing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to convert (energy) from one form to another, as from heat energy to electric energy. <BR> <I>Ex. Industrial measurement and control systems ... integrate fluctuating light, velocity, flow, and other factors which can be transduced to electrical current (Science).</I> </DL>
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<B>transducer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any device for converting energy from one form to another. A microphone, which converts sound into electric energy, is a transducer. </DL>
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<B>transduction, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Biology.) <DD><B> a. </B>the transfer of a gene or chromosome particle from one cell to another. <DD><B> b. </B>such a transfer conducted by a bacterial virus in the cells of bacteria. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Physics.) the conversion of energy from one form to another. <BR> <I>Ex. Transduction occurs when a loudspeaker changes electrical into acoustical energy.</I> </DL>
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<B>transearth, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> outside of or beyond the orbit of the earth (used especially of a spacecraft). <BR> <I>Ex. a transearth trajectory.</I> </DL>
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<B>transect, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to cut across; divide by passing across. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a cross section of the vegetation of an area, usually that part growing along a long, narrow strip. <BR> <I>Ex. For the botanist a brisk 15 miles between, say, Mumbles Head to Rhossili Bay in Glamorganshire is an eventful transect, abounding in rare flora (New Scientist).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a representation of such a cross section. </DL>
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<B>transection, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or process of transecting; cross section. </DL>
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<B>transelement, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to transform the elements of. </DL>
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<B>transept, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the shorter part of a cross-shaped church. <DD><B> 2. </B>either end of this part. </DL>
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<B>transeptal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, having to do with, or like a transept. adv. <B>transeptally.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="transeunt">
<B>transeunt, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> passing outward; producing an effect outside; transient. <BR> <I>Ex. a transeunt action.</I> </DL>
<B>transfer, </B>verb, <B>-ferred,</B> <B>-ferring,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1a. </B>to take or remove from one person or place to another; hand over. <BR> <I>Ex. This farm has been transferred from father to son for generations. Please have my trunks transferred to the Union Station. The clerk was transferred to another department.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to take or pass on from one condition to another. <BR> <I>Ex. The new meanings on many words have been ones transferred from literal to figurative uses.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to convey (a drawing, design, or pattern) from one surface to another, as to a lithographic stone, earthenware, or glass, by any one of various special means or processes. <BR> <I>Ex. You transfer the embroidery design from the paper to cloth by pressing it with a warm iron.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to make over (a title, right, or property) by deed or legal process. <BR> <I>Ex. to transfer a bond by endorsement.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to change from one public vehicle, such as a bus, train, or airplane, to another. <DD><B> 2. </B>to change from one place, position, or condition to another. <BR> <I>Ex. The student transferred from the state university to a college nearer his home.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the act of transferring or fact of being transferred. <BR> <I>Ex. The transfer of money by bank check is very common today.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a writing, drawing, or pattern printed from one surface onto another, as in lithography or photography. <DD><B> 3. </B>a ticket allowing a passenger to continue his journey on another bus, train, or airline. <DD><B> 4. </B>a point or place for transferring. <DD><B> 5. </B>the making over to another of title, right, or property by deed or legal process. <DD><B> 6a. </B>the act of turning the ownership of a share of stock or registered bond over to someone else. <DD><B> b. </B>a document ordering this. <DD><B> 7. </B>a person or thing transferred. <DD><B> 8. </B><B>=transfer of training.</B> </DL>
