splicer
Joins severed strands
A splicer is a person or device that splices—joins together rope, cable, wire, or film by interweaving or overlapping the ends.
In telecommunications and fiber optics, a splicer fuses optical fibers together.
Film editors once used mechanical splicers to cut and join celluloid; digital editing has largely displaced this.
The splicer aligned the fiber ends before fusing them.
Thin metallic conductor
- cableHeavy-duty woven line
- connectorThing that joins others
- terminalAt the endpoint
- junctionPoint where things meet
crimp · solder · insulation · conductor · gauge · heat shrink · lineman · pigtail
Gene-editing molecular machinery
- genomeOrganism's total hereditary material
- cloningMaking identical copies
- geneHereditary information unit
- DNAHereditary code molecule
recombinant · plasmid · vector · transgenic · gene therapy · mutation · transfection · sequencing
Joining into unity
- cleaverBroad-bladed cutting tool
- optical fiberLight-transmitting glass thread
- cableHeavy-duty woven line
- connectorsDevices that join things
multimode · core · cladding · alignment · loss · pigtail · termination · buffer
wire
Thin metallic conductor
junction · crimp · solder · insulation · conductor · gauge · heat shrink · lineman · pigtail · weatherproof
CRISPR
Gene-editing molecular machinery
- genomeOrganism's total hereditary material
- cloningMaking identical copies
- geneHereditary information unit
DNA · recombinant · plasmid · vector · transgenic · gene therapy · mutation · transfection · sequencing · knockout
fusion
Joining into unity
- cleaverBroad-bladed cutting tool
- optical fiberLight-transmitting glass thread
- cableHeavy-duty woven line
connectors · multimode · core · cladding · alignment · loss · pigtail · termination · buffer · jacket
line
Continuous mark or queue
- cableHeavy-duty woven line
- wireThin metallic conductor
- marlinspikePointed tool for splicing
fid · whipping · strand · braid · knot · tuck · seizing · cordage · rigging · mooring
montage
Assembled sequence of images
- cutawayView with exterior removed
- jump cutAbrupt splice between shots
- cross-cuttingEditing between parallel actions
dissolve · fade · wipe · timeline · footage · rough cut · final cut · sequence · continuity · post-production
- boat toolsmarlinspike, fid, palm, bilge pump, deck brush
- early cinemakinetoscope, cinematograph, bioscope, silent film, nickelodeon
- editing toolsred pen, spell check, grammar check, editor, dictionary
splicerbreaker
Wave that collapses shoreward
disconnector · interrupter · separator · splitter · slicer
- gene splicingCombining DNA from organisms
- comma spliceMisjoined clauses with punctuation
- DNA splicingCutting and rejoining genes
- alternative splicingVariable exon inclusion during transcription
- tape splicingJoining recorded strips together