splice
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Is splice a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (nautical) A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
2. (electricity) The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
3. (cricket) That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.Examples: "If the ball hits the splice, it is likely to dolly up for an easy catch."
4. (genetics) The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together exons.
verb (English)
1. (slang) To unite in marriage.Examples: "But come, it's getting dreadful late, you had better be turning flukes--it's a nice bed; Sal and me slept in that ere bed the night we were spliced."slang
2. (figuratively) To unite as if splicing.Examples: "He argues against attempts to splice different genres or species of literature into a single composition."figuratively
3. (genetics) To remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons.
4. (software engineering) To add, remove and/or replace several array/data elements in one operation.
Definition source: Wiktionary