unspliced

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adjective

Not spliced

OriginEnglish spliced ← Middle English un- ← Old English un- →
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Meanings

adjectiveunspliced (not comparable)
  1. not comparablemolecular biologyNot spliced

    Unexpected cytoplasmic expression of unspliced RNA seems to be prevented by some cellular mechanism.

    1991, Robert C. Gallo, Gilbert Jay, The Human Retroviruses, →ISBN, page 9

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishspliced
  9. Englishunspliced

From un- + spliced.

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APA

unspliced. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unspliced

MLA

“unspliced.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unspliced. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unspliced,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unspliced.

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