transmission
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Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin transmissionem (accusative of transmissio), from transmittere.
Pronunciation
Noun
transmission (countable and uncountable, plural transmissions)
- The act of transmitting, e.g. data or electric power.
- The fact of being transmitted.
- Something that is transmitted, such as a message, picture, or a disease; the sending of such a thing.
- Hyponyms: broadcast, narrowcast
- (biology) The passage of a nerve impulse across synapses.
- (automotive) A device, usually an assembly of gears (gearbox) plus a clutch or torque converter, through which power is sent from the engine to the driveshaft in an automobile (motor car or motor truck).
- Synonyms: gearbox (metonymically), tranny (informal)
- Hyponyms: automatic transmission, continuously variable transmission, CVT, DCT, MCT, manual transmission, semi-automatic transmission, stickshift, stick shift; slushbox (informal)
- Any vehicle with an internal combustion engine needs a transmission that can alter the gear ratio (engine RPM to wheel RPM) as the vehicle's speed changes.
- (law) The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor(s) any inheritance, legacy, right, or privilege, to which he is entitled, even if he should die without enjoying or exercising it.
- (medicine, biology) The passing of a communicable disease from an infected host individual or group to a conspecific individual or group.
Synonyms
- (several senses): outsending
Derived terms
- automated manual transmission
- automatic transmission
- clutchless manual transmission
- continuously variable transmission
- cotransmission
- cross-transmission
- cryo-transmission
- cryo-transmission electron micrograph
- cryo-transmission electron microscope
- cryo-transmission electron microscopy
- extraordinary optical transmission
- gliotransmission
- heterotransmission
- high-voltage transmission line
- intertransmission
- manual transmission
- mechanotransmission
- monochromated scanning transmission electron microscope
- multitransmission
- neurotransmission
- nontransmission
- overtransmission
- pretransmission
- retransmission
- scanning transmission electron microscope
- semi-automatic transmission
- standard transmission
- synchronized transmission
- teletransmission
- transaxle
- transflection
- Transmission Control Protocol
- transmissioned
- transmission electron diffraction
- transmission electron microscope
- transmission electron microscopy
- transmission function
- transmissionism
- transmissionist
- transmissionless
- transmission line
- transmission medium
- transmission mount
- transmission time
- transmission tower
- xenotransmission
Related terms
Translations
act of transmitting
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fact of being transmitted
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something transmitted
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passage of a nerve impulse
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assembly of gears
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passing of a communicable disease
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Noun
transmission c (singular definite transmissionen, plural indefinite transmissioner)
Declension
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | transmission | transmissionen | transmissioner | transmissionerne |
| genitive | transmissions | transmissionens | transmissioners | transmissionernes |
Declension of transmission
Further reading
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin trānsmissiōnem, from transmittere.
Pronunciation
Noun
transmission f (plural transmissions)
Derived terms
- courroie de transmission
Related terms
Descendants
- → Turkish: transmisyon
Further reading
- “transmission”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Noun
transmission c
Declension
Declension of transmission
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