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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
transmission
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
automatic transmission
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
automatic
▪ The new company will market the transmissions but will subcontract the manufacture of the automatic transmission.
▪ Most of you probably will want automatic transmission, which adds another $ 975.
▪ Meanwhile, the Mondeo becomes the first Ford to use a new electronically-controlled four-speed automatic transmission system.
▪ A / C, dishwashers, automatic transmissions, frozen dinners, and liberal theologians.
▪ Grants Power steering, automatic transmissions, hand-controlled accelerator and brake and swivel seats are often required.
▪ It did not have Powerglide automatic transmission.
▪ Less impressive is the performance of the optional automatic transmission.
▪ It turns in very firmly, with surprising power response, when ordering the automatic transmission to think quickly.
cultural
▪ It was not an alternative to cultural transmission, but in addition to it.
▪ The assumptions underlying these techniques are generally the same as those of the cultural transmission concept of learning.
▪ The unique feature of human adaptability, emphasized by Tinbergen, is the cultural transmission of information between generations.
▪ The cultural transmission concept of development views the mind as a machine.
digital
▪ Manufacturers currently are working to establish industry standards for digital transmission and reception of the signals.
direct
▪ Whichever category of function is involved, the direct transmission of capitalists' preferences to state officials is unimportant.
▪ For ethical reasons, experimental proof of direct person-to-person transmission is not feasible.
▪ Bureaucratic control does not allow the direct transmission of economic advantage across generations.
▪ The direct transmission mechanism People desire to hold a certain proportion of their assets in money form.
high
▪ A key question concerns the types of social contact that may be associated with a high risk of transmission of P cepacia.
▪ At higher frequencies the transmission clearly falls below this value so that the circuit behaves as a low-pass filter.
hiv
▪ As a result, the rate of HIV transmission was dramatic, and prevalence rose alarmingly in the late eighties.
▪ That goal is to reduce HIV transmission below the epidemic threshold.
▪ Factors Affecting Heterosexual Transmission why has HIV transmission failed to rise above the epidemic threshold among heterosexuals in most developed countries?
live
▪ Radio stations are planning live transmissions from midnight from the tiny graveyard where her body lies buried.
▪ Every month there is a live transmission of a church service.
■ NOUN
aids
▪ And it seems likely that attempts to contain AIDS transmission that ignore this principle will fail as well.
▪ Do not interrupt the cultural and behavioral context of AIDS transmission, it argues.
electron
▪ To evaluate our first impressions we examined transmission electron microscopy findings in 40 H pylori positive cases out of 94 randomised cases.
▪ The second half of the chapter introduces electron diffraction with a focus on transmission electrons.
facsimile
▪ It is more robust in form than many faces, which will help it withstand facsimile transmission.
▪ Searches can also be made by telephone or facsimile transmission.
line
▪ Norton to Saltholme transmission line without holding a public inquiry.
▪ There are no high-powered radio or television stations, and only a few electric-power transmission lines crisscross the rugged landscape.
▪ A design engineer might well require an appreciation of transmission line theory to ensure that the two connect together without data corruption.
▪ Beck was not proposing public ownership of the generating plants, but he did want the province to build the transmission lines.
▪ This would involve the creation of the world's longest and deepest electrical transmission line.
▪ It put both the ammonia storage tank and the transmission line underground.
▪ Workers at the industry's central research unit wanted to determine how high-voltage transmission lines and smoke from power stations affect trees.
▪ A lossless transmission line can be regarded as a multiple-section low-pass filter with sectional inductance and capacitance and respectively.
lines
▪ Workers at the industry's central research unit wanted to determine how high-voltage transmission lines and smoke from power stations affect trees.
▪ There are no high-powered radio or television stations, and only a few electric-power transmission lines crisscross the rugged landscape.
▪ But telephone companies building long-distance, high-capacity transmission lines have not been slow to take up the challenge.
▪ Beck was not proposing public ownership of the generating plants, but he did want the province to build the transmission lines.
mechanism
▪ Indirect transmission mechanisms An indirect transmission mechanism is where a change in money supply first affects some intermediate variable.
▪ This cavalier treatment of the transmission mechanism of monetary policy is one of the least attractive features of the new classical approach.
▪ The direct transmission mechanism People desire to hold a certain proportion of their assets in money form.
money
▪ In this brochure we highlight many of the Midland money transmission services.
▪ For example, that Act permits them to offer money transmission services.
▪ For retail banks it was the result of their money transmission service.
▪ We offer a free consultancy service to advise on the most appropriate and cost effective ways of meeting your money transmission needs.
▪ At Midland, we are committed to being market leaders in the provision of quality money transmission services.
radio
▪ Ships are noisy places Ocean-going tankers and oil platforms are formidable places in terms of stray radio transmission.
▪ The watching men saw him duck his head to catch the latest radio transmission from Grant and Larsen.
▪ Link, the radio transmission of every breathless exchange between the players and the match official.
▪ The Dutchman/Senta duet is taken from a 1943 radio transmission, in better sound than the Lohengrin.
▪ Mearns reports that he has measured in excess of 1 volt of stray radio transmissions coming from a single microprocessor.
▪ It was into this quiet atmosphere of cigarette smoke and casual conversation that the sudden crackle of Foster's radio transmission sounded.
satellite
▪ There is also an audiovisual language laboratory and facilities for receiving and recording satellite transmissions and for videoconferencing.
▪ This is something which is much more difficult than physical access to a satellite transmission.
▪ It is very difficult if not impossible to detect the interception of a satellite transmission.
service
▪ In this brochure we highlight many of the Midland money transmission services.
▪ S.W.I.F.T. provides transmission services among major banks round the world.
▪ For example, that Act permits them to offer money transmission services.
▪ For retail banks it was the result of their money transmission service.
▪ My hon. Friend wanted to know about data transmission services.
▪ At Midland, we are committed to being market leaders in the provision of quality money transmission services.
system
▪ Meanwhile, the Mondeo becomes the first Ford to use a new electronically-controlled four-speed automatic transmission system.
▪ This is the integration of photovoltaics into existing generation and transmission systems in developed countries.
▪ Furthermore, its integration with other desktop applications allows it to be used as a powerful document transmission system.
■ VERB
allow
▪ Bureaucratic control does not allow the direct transmission of economic advantage across generations.
▪ Cable modems, which allow fast transmission over cable television lines, are still in the test stage.
prevent
▪ Dental dams can also prevent the transmission of other sexually transmitted diseases.
▪ Good hand washing also prevents transmission of bacteria.
▪ This month scientific advisers will consider whether extra controls are needed to protect food and prevent accidental transmission through surgical operations.
provide
▪ A filter to provide such high-pass transmission can again be synthesised.
▪ Cable systems can be integrated with wireless transmission networks to provide voice transmissions to phones and data transmissions to personal communicators.
▪ According to John Landy of Lotus Communications, next year this will be extended to provide two-way wireless transmission of text.
▪ But those foreign wireless data networks provide the high-speed transmissions necessary for smooth and uninterrupted online gaming.
▪ S.W.I.F.T. provides transmission services among major banks round the world.
reduce
▪ Barrier contraception has been shown to reduce the risk of transmission.
▪ This contribution cleans up echoes on telephone lines and reduces transmission errors on modems.
use
▪ However, there are occasions when speech is used for the detailed transmission of factual information.
▪ Such canine Peter Pans even have low levels of the brain chemicals used in nerve transmission.
▪ Third party suppliers of gas use the same regional transmission and distribution systems.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Because of transmission difficulties, we have not received today's stock prices.
▪ My car has an automatic transmission.
▪ the sexual transmission of AIDS
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ How do we explain this variation, and how do we explain the transmission of this adaptation from one generation to another?
▪ However, there are occasions when speech is used for the detailed transmission of factual information.
▪ It was agreed that all transmission of film material will be in a progressive scan format from launch of services.
▪ The automatic transmission, a fivespeed, costs $ 975.
▪ The overall world picture shows: The basic modes of transmission have not changed.
▪ The power plant was a 454-cubic-inch, gasoline-powered Chevy V-8 tied to a four-speed automatic transmission.
▪ There is considerable scientific agreement about its means of transmission.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transmission

Transmission \Trans*mis"sion\, n. [L. transmissio; cf. F. transmission. See Transmit.]

  1. The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country to another; the transmission of rights, titles, or privileges, from father to son, or from one generation to another.

  2. (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.

  3. (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.

  4. The process or event of sending signals by means of a radio-frequency wave from an electronic transmitter to a receiving device.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
transmission

1610s, "conveyance from one place to another," from Latin transmissionem (nominative transmissio) "a sending over or across, passage," noun of action from past participle stem of transmittere "send over or across" (see transmit). Meaning "part of a motor vehicle that regulates power from the engine to the axle" is first recorded 1894.

Wiktionary
transmission

n. 1 The act of transmitting, e.g. data or electric power. 2 The fact of being transmitted. 3 Something that is transmitted, such as a message, picture or a disease; the sending of such a thing. 4 (context biology English) The passage of a nerve impulse across synapses. 5 (context automotive English) An assembly of gears through which power is transmitted from the engine to the driveshaft in a motor car / automobile; a gearbox. 6 (context legal English) 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. 7 (medicine, biology) The passing of a communicable disease from an infected host individual or group to a conspecific individual or group.

WordNet
transmission
  1. n. the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted [syn: transmittal, transmitting]

  2. communication by means of transmitted signals

  3. the fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance [syn: transmittance]

  4. an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted [syn: infection, contagion]

  5. the gears that transmit power from an automobile engine via the driveshaft to the live axle [syn: transmission system]

Wikipedia
Transmission

Transmission may refer to:

Transmission (mechanics)

In British English, the term transmission refers to the whole drivetrain, including clutch, gearbox, prop shaft (for rear-wheel drive), differential, and final drive shafts. In American English, however, the term refers more specifically to the gearbox alone, and detailed usage differs.

The most common use is in motor vehicles, where the transmission adapts the output of the internal combustion engine to the drive wheels. Such engines need to operate at a relatively high rotational speed, which is inappropriate for starting, stopping, and slower travel. The transmission reduces the higher engine speed to the slower wheel speed, increasing torque in the process. Transmissions are also used on pedal bicycles, fixed machines, and where different rotational speeds and torques are adapted.

Often, a transmission has multiple gear ratios (or simply "gears") with the ability to switch between them as speed varies. This switching may be done manually (by the operator) or automatically. Directional (forward and reverse) control may also be provided. Single-ratio transmissions also exist, which simply change the speed and torque (and sometimes direction) of motor output.

In motor vehicles, the transmission generally is connected to the engine crankshaft via a flywheel and/or clutch and/or fluid coupling, partly because internal combustion engines cannot run below a particular speed. The output of the transmission is transmitted via the driveshaft to one or more differentials, which drives the wheels. While a differential may also provide gear reduction, its primary purpose is to permit the wheels at either end of an axle to rotate at different speeds (essential to avoid wheel slippage on turns) as it changes the direction of rotation.

Conventional gear/belt transmissions are not the only mechanism for speed/torque adaptation. Alternative mechanisms include torque converters and power transformation (e.g. diesel-electric transmission and hydraulic drive system). Hybrid configurations also exist. Automatic transmissions use a valve body to shift gears using fluid pressures in conjunction with an ecm.

Transmission (BitTorrent client)

Transmission is a BitTorrent client which features a variety of user interfaces on top of a cross-platform back-end. Transmission is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), with parts under the MIT License.

Transmission (song)

"Transmission" is a song by English post-punk band Joy Division. It was released in 1979 by record label Factory as the band's debut single.

Transmission (Low EP)

Transmission EP is an EP by the indie rock band Low. It was released in 1996 on Vernon Yard Recordings. The title track is a cover of the classic song Transmission by Joy Division.

Transmission (magazine)

Transmission is a literary magazine in the United Kingdom. Transmission is a non-profit publication, and everybody involved in its production is a volunteer. It is published three times a year.

Transmission (Mechanical)
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Transmission (band)

Transmission is an experimental/ post-rock band based in the United Kingdom. The band includes former members of Killing Joke, Murder, Inc., The Verve, and Dreadzone.

Transmission (telecommunications)

In telecommunications, transmission (abbreviation: Tx) is the process of sending and propagating an analogue or digital information signal over a physical point-to-point or point-to-multipoint transmission medium, either wired, optical fiber or wireless. One example of transmission is the sending of a signal with limited duration, for example a block or packet of data, a phone call, or an email. Transmission technologies and schemes typically refer to physical layer protocol duties such as modulation, demodulation, line coding, equalization, error control, bit synchronization and multiplexing, but the term may also involve higher-layer protocol duties, for example, digitizing an analog message signal, and source coding (compression).

Transmission of a digital message, or of a digitized analog signal, is known as digital communication.

Transmission (medicine)

In medicine, public health, and biology, transmission is the passing of a communicable disease from an infected host individual or group to a particular individual or group, regardless of whether the other individual was previously infected.

The term usually refers to the transmission of microorganisms directly from one individual to another by one or more of the following means:

  • droplet contact – coughing or sneezing on another individual
  • direct physical contact – touching an infected individual, including sexual contact
  • indirect physical contact – usually by touching soil contamination or a contaminated surface ( fomite)
  • airborne transmission – if the microorganism can remain in the air for long periods
  • fecal-oral transmission – usually from unwashed hands, contaminated food or water sources due to lack of sanitation and hygiene, an important transmission route in pediatrics, veterinary medicine and developing countries.

Transmission can also be indirect, via another organism, either a vector (e.g. a mosquito or fly) or an intermediate host (e.g. tapeworm in pigs can be transmitted to humans who ingest improperly cooked pork). Indirect transmission could involve zoonoses or, more typically, larger pathogens like macroparasites with more complex life cycles. Transmissions can be autochthonous (i.e. between two individuals in the same place) or may involve travel of the microorganism or the affected hosts.

Transmission (The Tea Party album)

Transmission is the fourth album recorded by the Canadian band The Tea Party, released in 1997. The band expanded on the mix of rock, blues and world music found in their previous albums by adding electronic instruments and recording techniques to their repertoire.

While still using several exotic instruments and maintaining the "eastern" influence in the recording, many songs also include samples, sequencers and loops alongside the traditional acoustic instruments. The result is a harder, industrial sound. The album makes lyrical references to the afterlife (" Psychopomp"), the dystopian works of Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Yevgeny Zamyatin ("Army Ants") and Giovanni Piranesi's 'Imaginary Prisons' ("Alarum").

Transmission continued to build on the momentum generated by The Edges of Twilight, reaching double platinum status in Canada and receiving a 1998 Juno nomination for "Blockbuster Rock Album of the Year". An edited version of the song " Temptation", as well as an instrumental version of " Babylon", can be found on the PlayStation game Road Rash 3D, from the same year.

Transmission (genetics)

Genetic transmission is the transfer of genetic information from genes to another generation (from parent to offspring), almost synonymous with heredity, or from one location in a cell to another.

It should not be confused with chromosomal translocation, which is rearrangement of parts between non-homologous chromosomes.

It should also not be confused with horizontal gene transfer, a process in which an organism incorporates genetic material from another organism without being the offspring of that organism.

Transmission (Mêlée EP)

Transmission is a self released EP by Mêlée, released in 2001.

Transmission (Violent Delight album)

Transmission is the first album by the English punk band Violent Delight, released in 2003 by the WEA label.

Transmission (novel)

Transmission is a novel written by British-Indian author Hari Kunzru and published in 2005. It primarily follows the narrative of a naive Indian programmer, Arjun Mehta, who immigrates to the United States in hopes of making his fortune. When he is laid off by his virus-testing company, he sends out e-mails containing a malignant computer virus in a bid to keep his job, unintentionally causing global havoc. Parallel to Arjun's story is that of Guy Swift, the seemingly well-to-do English CEO of an advertising company, and his struggle to keep his business going as the virus spreads.

Transmission was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2005.

Transmission (festival)

Transmission is a large indoor trance music event based in Prague at the o2 Arena. In March 2014, the festival was held for the first time in Slovakia. Markus Schulz has frequently headlined.

Leaving Europe's shores for the first time, in July 2016 the festival will be held in Melbourne, Australia.

Transmission (TV series)

Transmission (also known for sponsorship reasons as Transmission with T-Mobile) is a British television programme broadcast on Channel 4, offering live performances and interviews of famous music artists that ran for three series between 2006 and 2007. It was usually shown late night on a Friday as part of the 4music strand on Channel 4.

The programme was sponsored by mobile phone network T-Mobile. The first series aired in 2006 and came back for a second series in early 2007 then returned for a third series at the end of 2007.

The programme was presented by T4 presenter Steve Jones and former XFM presenter Lauren Laverne.

Usage examples of "transmission".

He was careful not to use scary military terms such as amplification, lethal chain of transmission, crash and bleed, or major pucker factor.

Others, he was as happy to tease me, take care of me remotely via analog transmission.

They had asked the Eater questions about astrophysics, peppering it with a dozen in a single transmission.

ROOM - LATER Barnes talks on the radio transmission speaker to the surface.

Estosh made only that one transmission, and that was a short-range signal to his carrier here at Brask Oto.

None of the networks had floated so much as a hint of the extortionary fax transmissions.

The Extractor selects and draws pre-designated elements, minerals and other usable substances from the Alpha Centauri star system, and collects, accumulates, converts and channels the matter into its spunnel transmission subsystem for direct interstellar transfer to the Collector.

Have you received a transmission of a holograph from Rhise Prime in the past 60 seconds?

It is also believed that a discharging ear following measles may be the means of continuing the transmission of the disease.

Transmission of measles to human beings by the lower animals is still unproven.

Technical Transmissions Via Mental Telepathy or the Combination of Mediumistic Telepathy Under the Direction of the Confederation of Cosmic Space Beings.

His patrimonial acres and heirlooms remain indeed untouched, because the court of chancery have deemed it necessary to appoint a receiver to secure their faithful transmission to the next heir.

The transmission of thought by figures and symbols would, on the whole, therefore, foster those narrow and material tendencies which the genius of polysynthetic languages would seem calculated to produce.

The transmission ended and the image of Apohatsu was replaced with that of a starfield, with the pulsar depicted as an indistinct red blur at the center of the screen.

The laws that govern the transmission of large bodies of air from one part of the oceanic surface to another, either in a state of rapid rotation or presenting a more or less rectilineal direction, must at all times form an important matter of inquiry, and bear very materially on the successful prosecution of the occupation of the voyager.