Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word TRANSMISSION

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Definitions of TRANSMISSION

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. (biology) The passage of a nerve impulse across synapses.
5. (automotive) An assembly of gears through which power is transmitted from the engine to the driveshaft in a motor car / automobile; a gearbox.
6. (legal) 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.

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Examples of Using TRANSMISSION in a Sentence

• Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is a telecommunications standard defined by the American National Standards Institute and International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T, formerly CCITT) for digital transmission of multiple types of traffic.
• In telecommunications, asynchronous communication is transmission of data, generally without the use of an external clock signal, where data can be transmitted intermittently rather than in a steady stream.
• The declaration was contained in a letter dated 2November 1917 from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.
• Continuum mechanics is a branch of mechanics that deals with the deformation of and transmission of forces through materials modeled as a continuous medium (also called a continuum) rather than as discrete particles.
• A coder or encoder encodes a data stream or a signal for transmission or storage, possibly in encrypted form, and the decoder function reverses the encoding for playback or editing.
• A checksum is a small-sized block of data derived from another block of digital data for the purpose of detecting errors that may have been introduced during its transmission or storage.
• Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of television signals using digital encoding, in contrast to the earlier analog television technology which used analog signals.
• DSL or digital subscriber line is a family of technologies that provide digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network.
• The show took its name from the message (frequently seen on the TV screen in those days) that was displayed when there was a problem with transmission or technical difficulties.
• Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms.
• 75G, Enhanced GPRS (EGPRS), IMT Single Carrier (IMT-SC), and Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution, is a 2G digital mobile phone technology for data transmission.
• Many communication channels are subject to channel noise, and thus errors may be introduced during transmission from the source to a receiver.
• The telephony system employs an extensive system of modern network elements such as digital telephone exchanges, mobile switching centres, media gateways and signalling gateways at the core, interconnected by a wide variety of transmission systems using fibre-optics or Microwave radio relay networks.
• Fax (short for facsimile), sometimes called telecopying or telefax (short for telefacsimile), is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device.
• The Fresnel equations (or Fresnel coefficients) describe the reflection and transmission of light (or electromagnetic radiation in general) when incident on an interface between different optical media.
• It may be performed by a sexual partner as foreplay before other sexual activities, such as vaginal or anal intercourse, Fellatio creates a risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs), but the risk is significantly lower than that of vaginal or anal sex, especially for HIV transmission.
• This definition is used in all contexts of science (especially data science), engineering, business, and many areas of computing, including storage capacities of hard drives, solid-state drives, and tapes, as well as data transmission speeds.
• At the time of introduction it offered for the first time seamless mobile data transmission using packet data for an "always-on" connection (eliminating the need to "dial-up"), providing improved Internet access for web, email, WAP services, and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS).
• Cardano partially invented and described several mechanical devices including the combination lock, the gimbal consisting of three concentric rings allowing a supported compass or gyroscope to rotate freely, and the Cardan shaft with universal joints, which allows the transmission of rotary motion at various angles and is used in vehicles to this day.
• In 1911, he was awarded a patent for the transmission mechanism that would be used in the Ford Model T and other automobiles.

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