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Transmission   /trænsmˈɪʃən/  /trænzmˈɪʃən/   Listen
Transmission

noun
1.
The act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted.  Synonyms: transmittal, transmitting.
2.
Communication by means of transmitted signals.
3.
The fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance.  Synonym: transmittance.
4.
An incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted.  Synonyms: contagion, infection.
5.
The gears that transmit power from an automobile engine via the driveshaft to the live axle.  Synonym: transmission system.



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"Transmission" Quotes from Famous Books



... a man-made wall rose sheer a hundred feet above the original bed of the stream, leaving it in part revealed; and this barrier checked and stayed the once resistless flood against which an entire mountain range had proved inefficient. Presently for hundreds of miles each way the transmission lines would carry out power to those seeking light, to those employing labor; and the used water would irrigate ...
— The Sagebrusher - A Story of the West • Emerson Hough
... Builders, men of leisure, and professional men, of all classes, need good books in the line of their respective callings. Our post office department permits the transmission of books through the mails at very small cost. A comprehensive catalogue of useful books by different authors, on more than fifty different subjects, has recently been published, for free circulation, at the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 • Various
... certain names as the emblems of knowledge and virtue. Some of their fellow-citizens acquired a power over the rest which might truly have been called aristocratic, if it had been capable of invariable transmission from ...
— American Institutions and Their Influence • Alexis de Tocqueville et al
... much a man's own that he can always recall it, is based on the transformation of the etheric body. That which little by little becomes an abiding possession of the memory has its foundation in the transmission to the etheric body of the work of ...
— An Outline of Occult Science • Rudolf Steiner
... term in the mercantile world, to denote the bills by which remittances are made from one country to another, without the transmission of money. The removal of officers from one ship to another. Also, a mutual agreement between contending powers for ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth


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