scriptons

Noun

scripton (plural scriptons)

1. (molecular biology) A segment of DNA or RNA that is under the control of a single autonomous promotor. A single scripton may encode multiple cistrons involving separate terminators.
   • Approximately by 10-15 min after infection, the protein tof turns on the transcription of the scripton L2.1983, Klaus Bellmann, Molecular genetic information systems: modelling and simulation, page 86
2. An unbroken sequence of textons within a hypertext or other dynamic text as it appears to the reader.
   • If you manage to pick it up, you might read "You steal the lamp. Unfortunately, it is just a piece of useless junk./Taken." (If there is no message programed by the lamp's maker, you will just see the scripton "Taken.") Other players with a character in the same room might see a scripton saying...1997, Espen J. Aarseth, Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature, →ISBN, page 154