Usually means: Joining two pieces into one.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. splice: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. splice: Merriam-Webster
  3. splice: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. splice: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. splice: Collins English Dictionary
  6. splice: Vocabulary.com
  7. Splice, splice: Wordnik
  8. splice: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. splice: Wiktionary
  10. splice: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. splice: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. splice: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. splice: Dictionary.com
  14. splice (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. splice: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Splice (film), Splice (ice cream), Splice (platform), Splice (system call), Splice (video game), Splice: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Splice: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. splice: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. splice: Rhymezone
  20. Splice: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. splice: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Splice: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. splice: FreeDictionary.org
  24. splice: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. splice: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Splice (disambiguation), splice: Legal dictionary
  3. Splice: Radio Programming and Production

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Splice (disambiguation), splice: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. splice: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. splice: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPLICE: Acronym Finder
  2. splice: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. splice, splice: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. splice: Urban Dictionary

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. splice: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Book Binding (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  5. K & A glossary (No longer online)
  6. Paper Making (No longer online)
  7. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  8. Splice: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See spliced as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (nautical) A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
noun:  (electrical) The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
noun:  (cricket) That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.
noun:  Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.
noun:  (genetics) The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together exons.
verb:  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.
verb:  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.
verb:  (slang) To unite in marriage.
verb:  (figuratively) To unite as if splicing.
verb:  (genetics) To remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons.
verb:  (software engineering) To add, remove and/or replace several array/data elements in one operation.

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