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splicer

n. A person or device that makes a splice.

WordNet
splicer
  1. n. a woodworker who joins pieces of wood with a splice

  2. a worker who splices ropes together by interweaving strands

  3. a mechanical device for joining two pieces of paper or film or magnetic tape

Wikipedia
Splicer

Splicer may refer to:

  • Characters in BioShock (series)
  • Characters in Splicers
  • Film splicer

Usage examples of "splicer".

Gods-damned splicer that will work at least half the Gods-damned time!

He jumped to his feet, fortunately remembering to flick off the splicer before he shoved it in his shirt pocket.

The brown mass of the Splicer began to shuffle massively towards them and they started trying to climb the sheer glass sides of the tank, climbing over each other and slipping back down as soon as they tried to haul themselves up.

Luseferous turned to watch the Recondite Splicer tear the giant leeches apart and eat them, violently shaking its great patchily brown head and tossing some bits of slimy black flesh all the way out of the tank.

Zhang Dong--everyone but Chowdhury called him Sam--was using the DNA splicer to make certain changes Chowdhury had ordered in several genes taken from a coral snake.

Dong touched a button, and the splicer spat out a cassette containing the material he had been working on and the reagents he had been using.

Just then the door swung open and an anemic-looking splicer goth, twenty something and all in black, stepped out.

He solicited the services of an outlaw splicer, a smug little man with drooping moustaches and ugly, jewelled eyes.

For a huge sum of money, the splicer procured for Hanuman a vial of viruses made six hundred years previously on Catava.

He gave his gene splicer an encouraging pat in passing, and beckoned imperiously for Finn to follow him.

The first gene splicers and fabricators were just going to end hereditary diseases and grow new crops.

Others would have stashed their battered DNA splicers in storerooms, hiding them against a better day.

Others would have stashed their battered DNA splicers in storerooms, hiding them against a better day.

If one removes all the bells and whistles of contemporary genre fiction -- the thrills, the suspense, the ghosts in the machines, the machines themselves, from computers to fembots to gene splicers and dicers in the grocery aisles -- one is left with very little to entertain or enlighten readers with a taste for transcendence, or even just something resembling Real Life in the 21st century, where the Future butts up against the Everyday, every day.