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Transcription vs Transcriptional - What's the difference?

transcription | transcriptional |

As a noun transcription

is the act or process of transcribing.

As an adjective transcriptional is

of or pertaining to transcription, especially to the transcription of genetic information.

transcription

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or process of transcribing.
  • Something that has been transcribed, including:
  • # (music) An adaptation of a composition.
  • These interludes frequently include transcriptions of Italian folk songs.
  • # A recorded radio or television programme.
  • # (linguistics) A representation of speech sounds as phonetic symbols.
  • (genetics) The synthesis of RNA under the direction of DNA.
  • transcriptional

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to transcription, especially to the transcription of genetic information