transmission

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: trans=mis=sion

CIDE DICTIONARY

transmission, n. [L. transmissio; cf. F. transmission. See Transmit.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  The process or event of sending signals by means of a radio-frequency wave from an electronic transmitter to a receiving device.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

transmission, n.
1 the act or an instance of transmitting; the state of being transmitted.
2 a broadcast radio or television programme.
3 the mechanism by which power is transmitted from an engine to the axle in a motor vehicle.

Idiom

transmission line a conductor or conductors carrying electricity over large distances with minimum losses.

Etymology

L transmissio (as TRANS-, MISSION)

THESAURUS

transmission

FCC, FM broadcasting, Federal Communications Commission, Hydromatic, abalienation, account, acquaintance, alienation, amortization, amortizement, announcement, assignation, assignment, automatic transmission, bargain and sale, barter, bequeathal, blue book, briefing, broadcast, broadcasting, bulletin, carrying, cession, cogwheel, communication, communique, conduction, conferment, conferral, consignation, consignment, contagion, convection, conveyance, conveyancing, data, datum, deeding, deliverance, delivery, demise, deportation, diapedesis, differential, differential gear, diffusion, directory, disclosure, dispatch, disposal, disposition, dissemination, enfeoffment, enlightenment, evidence, exchange, export, exportation, expulsion, extradition, facts, factual information, fade-out, familiarization, forwarding, freewheel, gear, gear train, gearbox, gearing, gearshift, gearwheel, gen, general information, giving, guidebook, handout, hard information, high, impartation, imparting, impartment, import, importation, incidental information, info, information, instruction, intelligence, interchange, intermediate, knowledge, lease and release, light, low, mention, message, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, migration, mixing, movement, moving, mutual transfer, neutral, notice, notification, osmosis, overdrive, passage, passing over, perfusion, presentation, promotional material, proof, publication, publicity, rack, radiobroadcasting, release, report, reverse, sale, sending, settlement, settling, sharing, shipment, shipping, sidelight, spread, spreading, standard broadcasting, standard transmission, statement, stick shift, surrender, synchromesh, telecasting, telling, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, tone control, trading, transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transference, transferral, transfusion, transit, transition, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmittal, transmittance, transmitting, transplacement, transplantation, transport, transportation, transporting, transposal, transposition, travel, vestigial transmission, vesting, volume control, white book, white paper, word

ROGET THESAURUS

transmission

Transfer

N transfer, conveyance, assignment, alienation, abalienation, demise, limitation, conveyancing, transmission, enfeoffment, bargain and sale, lease and release, exchange, barter, substitution, succession, reversion, shifting use, shifting trust, devolution, alienable, negotiable, estate coming into possession.

Transference

N transfer, transference, translocation, elocation, displacement, metastasis, metathesis, removal, remotion, amotion, relegation, deportation, asportation, extradition, conveyance, draft, carrying, carriage, convection, conduction, contagion, transfer, transit, transition, passage, ferry, gestation, portage, porterage, carting, cartage, shoveling, vection, vecture, vectitation, shipment, freight, wafture, transmission, transport, transportation, importation, exportation, transumption, transplantation, translation, shifting, dodging, dispersion, transposition, traction, drift, transferred, drifted, movable, portable, portative, mailable, contagious, from hand to hand, from pillar to post, on the way, by the way, on the road, on the wing, under way, in transit, on course, as one goes, in transitu, en route, chemin faisant, en passant, in mid progress, in mid course.

Passage

N passage, transmission, permeation, penetration, interpenetration, transudation, infiltration, endosmose exosmose, endosmosis, intercurrence, ingress, egress, path, conduit, opening, journey, voyage, passing, intercurrent, endosmosmic, endosmotic, en passant.