Tran-scrip'tion, n.
n. [Lat. transcriptio, Fr. transcription, It. transcrizione.]
Sense 1. The act of transcribing or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions.
Sense 2. (Mus.) A kind of free translation of a vocal into a piano-forte or an orchestral work; an adaptation; an arrangement;—a name applied by modern composers for the piano-forte to a more or less fanciful and ornate reproduction on their own instrument of a song or other piece not originally intended for it.