Definition of transcription:

• a recording ( e. g., from broadcast to tape recording)
• the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music
• a sound or television recording ( e. g., from a broadcast to a tape recording)
• An arrangement of a composition for some other instrument or voice than that for which it was originally written, as the translating of a song, a vocal or instrumental quartet, or even an orchestral work, into a piece for the piano; an adaptation; an arrangement; -- a name applied by modern composers for the piano to a more or less fanciful and ornate reproduction on their own instrument of a song or other piece not originally intended for it; as, Liszt's transcriptions of songs by Schubert.
• A copy; the act of copying.
• The act of copying: a transcript: a copy.
• Act of copying; copy.
• A copying; transcript.
• The act of copying; a copy.
• The act of copying.

Usage examples for transcription

1. Thus it was that, before he understood the significance of the change in him, he realized at last the great fact that his first great work had risen to completion, as it were, in a night, and lay now awaiting only the mechanical transcription to paper.  The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter

2. An example of apparent error in transcription is 2 Sam.  Companion to the Bible by E. P. Barrows

3. In all the monasteries which he founded, provision was made for the pursuit of sacred learning and the multiplication of books by transcription.  The Glories of Ireland by Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. Lennox