txn
txn is the abbreviation of transaction.
txn is the abbreviation of transcription.
Meaning of transaction
Noun
transaction (plural transactions)
- The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).
- The transaction was made on Friday with the supplier.
- A deal or business agreement.
- An exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.; personal interaction.
- I made the transaction with the vendor as soon as she showed me the pearls.
- The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.
- But also: all of the banking transactions you carry out, each phrase you dictate to Alexa, each scan of a UPS package en route to your door, every record of a COVID-19 PCR test in your Labcorp account, every bucket of wings you DoorDashed.2022 February 4, Ian Bogost, “The Internet Is Just Investment Banking Now”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2022
- An atomic operation; a message, data modification, or other procedure that is guaranteed to perform completely or not at all (e.g. a database transaction).
- A record of the proceedings of a learned society.
Meaning of transcription
Noun
transcription (countable and uncountable, plural transcriptions)
- The act or process of transcribing, or converting spoken (or sometimes signed) language to the written form.
- One might eaſier beleeue that the error was committed in the tranſcription of the copy from Ptolomies library, and ſo that it had a ſucceſſiue propagation through all the copies diſperſed.1610, chapter 13, in John Healey, transl., The Citie of God, London: George Eld, translation of De civitate Dei contra paganos by St. Augustine, page 548
- An adaptation of a composition.
- These frame tale interludes frequently include transcriptions of Italian folk songs.
- A recorded radio or television programme.
- From the outset, Selvage had hoped to interest NBC or CBS in broadcasting the American Family Robinson on a sustaining basis. Neither did, and the series ended up in transcription, recorded and circulated to individual stations by the World Broadcasting System.1999, William L. Bird, "Better Living": Advertising, Media and the New Vocabulary of Business Leadership, 1935-1955, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN
- A representation of speech sounds as phonetic symbols.
- While the sounds of the language [English] undergo constant change and growth, the writing system is rarely reviewed or adapted to recent changes in speech. Consequently, there is a patent need for a transcription in linguistic research and dictionaries.1977, Ali M. Al Kasimi, Linguistics and Bilingual Dictionaries, Brill Archive, →ISBN, page 37
- A written document.
- THeſe Ages have beene, and are to this day, much indebted to Tranſcriptions. Inventions are oft-times ſlow, where the application of things invented to the preſent State ſeemes more facile and eaſie : Hereto then ſhould the Scope of Hiſtories tend ; not onely to perſonate the Acts of men upon the...1638, Richard Braithwait, A Survey Of History: Or, A Nursery for Gentry, London: I. Okes, page 27
- Synonym of copywork.
- Synonyms:
- copywork
Forms of txn
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Questions about txn
- What is txn the abbreviation of?
- Txn is the abbreviation of transaction.
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