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transcriptional

transcriptional

7.0
Making a written record of spoken words
  • adjective
  • /trænˈskrɪpʃənl/
translation icon : transcripcional
  • transcriptional regulation

Examples

  • Transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulations reveal several similarities in cancer and pluripotent stem cells 48, 60.

    Academic text (2016)

  • Although initially argued to be spurious transcriptional noise, recent evidence suggests that the proverbial "dark matter" of the genome may play a major biological role in cellular development and metabolism 11-17.

    Blog text (18)

  • The scientist studied the transcriptional changes that occurred in response to the drug treatment.

  • Researchers often analyze transcriptional data to understand how genes are expressed in different conditions.

  • The team's work focused on transcriptional processes that affect language development in children.

Synonyms

transcriptive
vstranscriptional
7.7

To turn speech or recordings into written words

focuses specifically on turning spoken words into written or printed records

Surface Forms

transcriptional positive

Morphology

transcriptional = transcription (transparent) = trans + script + ion + al

The adjective is a regular formation meaning 'relating to transcription', so the meaning follows directly from the base word.

Etymology

Transcriptional comes from trans- 'across' and script 'to write', and it is related to the common word transcribe, which means to write down what was said. So transcriptional describes the work of making a written record of spoken words.