Definition of "splice"

splice

/splaɪs/

noun
plural splices
1. (nautical) A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
2. (electrical) The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
3. (cricket) That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.
4. Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.
5. (genetics) The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together exons.
verb
third-person singular simple present splices, present participle splicing, simple past and past participle 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.
3. (slang) To unite in marriage.
  Quotations
  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
4. (figuratively) To unite as if splicing.
5. (genetics) To remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons.
6. (software development) To add, remove and/or replace several array/data elements in one operation.