transmission
/tɹænsˈmɪʃən/ sustantivo B2En español: caja de cambios, transmisión
- The act of transmitting, e.g. data (signals) or electric power.
- The fact of being transmitted.
- Something that is transmitted, such as a message, picture, or a disease; the sending of such a thing.
- The passage of a nerve impulse across synapses.
- A device, usually an assembly of gears (gearbox) plus a clutch or torque converter, through which power is sent from the engine to the driveshaft in an automobile (motor car or motor truck).
- 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.
- The passing of a pathogen or communicable disease from an infected host individual or group to a conspecific individual or group.
- The passing down of a text through time.
Plural transmissions
De la biblioteca
“‘I, El-Kobbir, a slave-merchant, and purveyor of the harem of his highness, acknowledge having received for transmission to the sublime emperor, from the French lord, the Count of Monte Cristo, an emerald valued at eight hundred thousand francs; as the ransom of a young Christian slave of eleven years of age, named Haydée, the acknowledged daughter of the late lord Ali Tepelini, pasha of Yanina, and of Vasiliki, his favorite; she having been sold to me seven years previously, with her mother, who had died on arriving at Constantinople, by a French colonel in the service of the Vizier Ali Tepelini, named Fernand Mondego.
The implementation of double-blind lineup procedures represents another crucial safeguard designed to mitigate the unintentional transmission of suggestive cues to the observer.
More importantly, the systematic removal of contaminated water from the immediate vicinity of the populace drastically reduced the widespread transmission of devastating waterborne diseases.
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