splice

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to join two pieces of rope, film, or other material by intertwining or overlapping the strands or ends

   The sailor taught me how to splice two ropes together.

2. 2
   verb

   to join pieces of film, tape, or digital media together

   The editor spliced the two scenes seamlessly.

3. 3
   verb

   to combine genetic material from different sources

   Scientists can splice genes from one organism into another.

4. 4
   noun

   a joint or connection made by splicing

   The splice in the cable was barely visible.

From Middle Dutch splissen (to splice, to split or untwist), from Proto-Germanic *splītaną (to split). Originally of ropes, extended to film in the early 20th century and to genetic material in the 1970s.

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