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Definition of Splicing

1. Noun. A junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together. "The break was due to an imperfect splice"

Definition of Splicing

1. Noun. The point at which two things are spliced. ¹

2. Verb. (present participle of splice) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Splicing

1. splice [v] - See also: splice

Medical Definition of Splicing

1. The process by which introns are removed from hnRNA to produce mature messenger RNA that contains only exons. Alternative splicing seems to occur in many proteins and by alternative exon usage a set of related proteins can be generated from one gene, often in a tissue or developmental stage specific manner. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Splicing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Mechanical and Electrical Cost Data: Giving Shipping Weights by Halbert Powers Gillette, Richard Turner Dana (1918)
"Method and Cost of Cable splicing. Of all outside construction the most delicate work is ... Above all things, good splicing requires conscientious work, ..."

2. Manual by American Railway Engineering Association (1921)
"of the duct for the entire length between adjacent splicing chambers, ... (a) splicing chambers shall be located where indicated on the plans and shall be ..."

3. Molecular Neurobiology: Proceedings of the 2nd NIMH Conference by Steven Zalcman (1995)
"In humans, however, alternative splicing results in four forms of mRNA™. Recently, all four of the corresponding protein forms ..."

4. Hand-loom Weaving: A Manual for School and Home by Mattie Phipps Todd (1902)
"The children learn this method of splicing very quickly and the result is much more satisfactory than knotting, because the back of the rug or mat will ..."

5. Hand-loom Weaving: A Manual for School and Home by Mattie Phipps Todd (1902)
"The children learn this method of splicing very quickly and the result is much more satisfactory than knotting, because the back of the rug or mat will be ..."

6. The Mechanical Engineer's Pocket-book: A Reference Book of Rules, Tables by William Kent (1902)
"splicing WIRE ROPE. We now have all the strands laid in their proper places with their respective ends passing each other, as in Fig. ..."

7. Telephone Construction, Methods and Cost by Clarence Mayer, John Clifford Slippy (1908)
"Method of Figuring Cable splicing Costs.—The method of figuring cable ... Cable splicing costs, Tables XXXVIII to LXII, are based on the following rate of ..."

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