spliced

Verb

splice (third-person singular simple present splices, present participle splicing, simple past and past participle spliced)

1. To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.
2. To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast.

   Synonyms:

   tail

3. (slang) To unite in marriage.
   • 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.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
4. (figuratively) To unite as if splicing.
   • He argues against attempts to splice different genres or species of literature into a single composition.
5. To remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons.
6. To add, remove and/or replace several array/data elements in one operation.

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