splice

plural splices

1. nauticalA junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
2. businessThe electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
3. ball gamesThat part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.

   If the ball hits the splice, it is likely to dolly up for an easy catch.

4. Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.
5. biologyThe process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together exons.

present singular third person splices · participle present splicing · participle past spliced · past spliced

1. 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.
2. 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.

   Synonyms: tail

3. slangTo unite in marriage.

   Ah! thinkin’ o’ gettin’ spliced, you two?

   1937, Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon

   1 more example

   But come, it's getting dreadful late, you had better be turning flukes--it's a nice bed; Sal and me slept in that ere bed the night we were spliced.

   1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

4. figurativelyTo unite as if splicing.

   He argues against attempts to splice different genres or species of literature into a single composition.

5. biologyTo remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons.
6. computingTo add, remove and/or replace several array/data elements in one operation.