splice
English
/splaɪs/
noun
Definitions
- (nautical) A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
- (electrical) The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
- (cricket) That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.
- Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.
- (genetics) The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together exons.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Dutch splissen.
Origin
Middle Dutch
splissen
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -o- English
- -some English
- T English
- T-splice English
- eye English
- eyesplice English
- intersplice English
- prespliceosome English
- pseudosplice English
- resplice English
- spliceable English
- spliceopathy English
- spliceosomal English
- spliceosome English
- spliceostatin English
- splicer English
- statin English
- supraspliceosome English
- unspliceable English
- spleißen German
- splitsen Dutch, Flemish
- splitsing Dutch, Flemish
- épissage French
- épisser French
- splejs Danish
- splejse Danish
- splejset Danish
- sbleisio Welsh
- splissen Middle Dutch
- splīzen Middle High German