Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of transmitting.
- noun The fact of being transmitted.
- noun Something, such as a message, that is transmitted.
- noun An automotive assembly of gears and associated parts by which power is transmitted from the engine to a driving axle.
- noun The sending of a signal, picture, or other information from a transmitter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The apparatus and mechanism for transmitting (with transformation) the revolutions of the motor-shaft in a motor-car to the driving-wheels.
- noun The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; transmittal; transference.
- noun In biology, specifically, same as
heredity . - noun In physics, a passing through, as of light through glass or other transparent body, or of radiant heat through a diathermanous body.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted.
- noun (Law) The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor or successors any inheritance, legacy, right, or privilege, to which he is entitled, even if he should die without enjoying or exercising it.
- noun (Mech.) The mechanism within a vehicle which transmits rotational power from the engine to the axle of the wheel propelling the vehicle; it includes the gears and gear-changing mechanism as well as the propeller shaft.
- noun The process or event of sending signals by means of a radio-frequency wave from an electronic transmitter to a receiving device.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
transmitting , e.g. data or electric power. - noun The fact of being
transmitted . - noun Something that is transmitted, such as a
message ,picture or adisease ; thesending of such a thing. - noun biology The passage of a
nerve impulse acrosssynapses . - noun automotive An
assembly ofgears through whichpower is transmitted from theengine to thedriveshaft in amotor car /automobile ; agearbox . - noun law The
right possessed by anheir orlegatee of transmitting to hissuccessor (s) anyinheritance ,legacy , right, orprivilege , to which he is entitled, even if he should die without enjoying or exercising it.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun communication by means of transmitted signals
- noun the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted
- noun an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
- noun the gears that transmit power from an automobile engine via the driveshaft to the live axle
- noun the fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This new technology allows inter-chip communication that is three times faster than modern communication interface standards, such as USB 3.0 and PCI Express 2.0, without using complicated transmission modes like multilevel transmission*.
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In more than 95% of all cars the transmission is automatic, and, again, how many people can even explain what a transmission or a differential does?
October « 2007 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2007
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In more than 95% of all cars the transmission is automatic, and, again, how many people can even explain what a transmission or a differential does?
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Interestingly, I recently learned that for Skype-to-Skype calls (that is, no actual telephone lines or cell phone services being used), all data transmission is encrypted, and apparently Skype refuses to provide decryption info to the U.S.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Our Government is Anti-Consumer 2009
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The automotivestyle transmission is easy to use and works very well with forward, neutral, and reverse; the electronic control module and three hydraulic clutches automatically select one of three forward gears for you and keeping the engine in the meat of the powerband most of the time.
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WHO stopped listing national totals after July 6 because, the organization said, "the increasing number of cases in many countries with sustained community transmission is making it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for countries to try and confirm them through laboratory testing."
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Electric transmission is thick in population centers and very thin in the zones where wind is best.
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I was then directed to stop by a male screener, with NO explanation that he was to receive a radio transmission from a person reviewing my near-pornographic image in a separate area.
John W. Whitehead: Michael Roberts: One Man Against the Surveillance State John W. Whitehead 2010
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Electric transmission is thick in population centers and very thin in the zones where wind isbest
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Sometimes ideas get changed in transmission, and sometimes those changed ideas spread even farther and with more impact than the ideas that came before them.
ianweniger commented on the word transmission
Again, there are sample sentences for the word at the top of the page that do not actually contain the word! Do you need help editing?
January 21, 2010
grant_barrett commented on the word transmission
Ian, the sentences are gathered automatically. We've rolled out some new rulesets and a big batch of new data that need just a few tweaks. I've opened a support ticket for the issue.
January 21, 2010