Splice

The term splicing has several meanings:

• Joining ropes, cordage or strands of bowstrings, see splicing
• Joining of paper or film webs with adhesive tapes ( splicing tapes ), see splicing (paper industry)
• Connecting wires to telephone cables or glass fibers in telecommunications and network technology, see splicing (telecommunications technology)
• Halving of feathers for bed filling or arrow fletching
• Splitting wood, see splicing (wood) - however (Austrian, mostly Mz. :) Spreisseln = small stove-firewood
• Cutting out the introns from the pre-mRNA in the course of transcription in protein biosynthesis, see splicing (biology)

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Wiktionary: splicing  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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