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the art of joining two ends so cleanly the seam disappears entirely
means To join two things—ropes, film, genes, audio clips—end to end so they function as one continuous whole.
from A sailor's word, almost certainly borrowed from Middle Dutch 'splissen,' meaning to join rope by weaving the unraveled strands of two ends into each other. It came ashore with the maritime trade and, over the centuries, sailed into film editing, genetics, and tape—anywhere two ends need to become a seamless one. The deeper roots are uncertain, but the rope-weaving sense is where English first caught it.
- film age
- Editors physically cut and glued celluloid for a century
- gene game
- CRISPR splices DNA like a molecular word processor
- rope craft
- Spliced rope keeps full strength; a knot loses some
- audio trick
- Tape splicing built early electronic music note by note
- horror role
- A 2009 sci-fi film about a spliced human-animal hybrid
for instance
splice junction — molecular biology: where introns are removed from pre-mrna during gene expression