Usually means: Joining two pieces of material.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. splices: Merriam-Webster
  2. splices: Collins English Dictionary
  3. splices: Vocabulary.com
  4. Splices, splices: Wordnik
  5. splices: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. splices: Wiktionary
  7. splices: Dictionary.com
  8. splices: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. splices: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. splices: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. splices: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. splices: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. splices: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Splices: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See splice as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (splice)

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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