transmission
pronunciation
How to pronounce transmission in British English:
UK [trænzˈmɪʃn]
How to pronounce transmission in American English:
US [trænzˈmɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted
- communication by means of transmitted signals
- the fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance
- an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
- the gears that transmit power from an automobile engine via the driveshaft to the live axle
Word Origin
- transmission (n.)
- 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.
Example
- 1. Wider transmission of the disease may have been avoided .
- 2. Wind-power projects are undermined by transmission problems .
- 3. The transmission plant has 1900 employees .
- 4. That would probably require big subsidies as well as new transmission lines .
- 5. That denotes some transmission of values and attitudes between generations .