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spliced; splicing
1
a
: to unite (two ropes or two parts of a rope) by interweaving the strands
b
: to unite (two lengths of magnetic tape, photographic film, etc.) by overlapping and securing together two ends
2
: to unite, link, or insert as if by splicing
3
: to combine or insert (something) by genetic engineering
spliced a human gene for insulin into a bacterium
splicer
noun
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Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
Beatlemania had dinged his appeal so perilously that editor Jonathan Redmond splices its arrival with images of car crashes and missile attacks.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
Elie Dolgin, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Feb. 2026
The most effective way to splice speaker cables is by using a dedicated, in-line speaker wire splice.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
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Verb
Inside the fence line were cranes, fuel tanks, and spools of cable; a crew was splicing together cages of rebar to sink into the ground.
—Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
Beatlemania had dinged his appeal so perilously that editor Jonathan Redmond splices its arrival with images of car crashes and missile attacks.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
Noun
Many of these features already have their own specialty AI tools—SpliceAI for splice site prediction, ChromBPNet for local chromatin accessibility, Orca for three-dimensional genome architecture.
—Elie Dolgin, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Feb. 2026
The most effective way to splice speaker cables is by using a dedicated, in-line speaker wire splice.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
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“Splice.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/splice. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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splice
1 of 2 verb
spliced; splicing
1
: to unite (as two ropes) by weaving the strands together
2
: to unite (as pieces of film) by connecting the ends together
3
: to unite, link, or insert as if by splicing
splicer
noun
splice
2 of 2 noun
: a joining or joint made by splicing
Medical Definition
splice
transitive verb
spliced; splicing
: to join together or insert (as segments of RNA or DNA) to form new genetic combinations
spliced a human gene for insulin into a bacterium
see gene-splicing
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