Clips of a trio of male dancers performing choreography, as well as scenes of Timbaland providing the song’s signature backup vocals, are spliced in between the Canadian artist singing to the camera.—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 22 May 2024 Bennett pulls off his own feat of engineering in splicing genres together so effectively, marrying the imaginative abundance of a fantasy world to the structure, pace and character dynamics of detective fiction.—Amal El-Mohtar, New York Times, 8 May 2024
Noun
Before Gould, such splices, inserts, dubbings and other tools of the recording engineers were generally seen as remedies for brief mistakes, sometimes of a single note.—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2024 The expert editing that splices between an activist's backstory and their actions in real time only ratchets up the tension for each character.—Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 25 Dec. 2023 See all Example Sentences for splice
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Word History
Etymology
Verb
obsolete Dutch splissen; akin to Middle Dutch splitten to split
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