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transmission

Transmission is the sending of something from one place to another, usually something like electricity, a message or a disease. Washing before touching food can prevent the transmission of disease in food and drink. The new communication lines and will be able to support data transmission at speeds four times faster than today. The National Transmission System is a network of thousands of kilometres of wire. A transmission is a signal, such as TV or radio, that is sent from one place to another. Radio stations have promised live transmission from the concert. A transmission in a machine is the parts that transfer the engine's movement to the wheels or other moving parts. The car comes with a four-speed automatic transmission.

transmission

(= transmitting) the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted communication by means of transmitted signals the gears that transmit power from an automobile engine via the driveshaft to the live axle (= transmittance) the fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance (= infection) an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted

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Simple sentences

Can you operate a manual transmission?
In the case of language, however, it is only the ability to talk and understand that we inherit genetically; the particular language or languages that we speak are passed on to us not by genetic transmission but by cultural transmission.
Can you drive a manual transmission?
Can you drive a car with manual transmission?
This controller has accelerometers in it so it can send a farewell transmission as your child chucks it out the window.
Looks like the transmission belt broke.

Movie subtitles

When the day comes that we pick up a transmission from an alien civilisation, we as a species, frankly, will face our greatest challenge ever, I think.
Each reminder of the mysterious radio transmission made his fantasy grow that much stronger.
For the attention of the spectator: This film presents an experiment in the cinematic transmission of visible phenomena.
Compound transmission of the pandemonium with percussion and spasmodic frantic disintegration!
If you've completed your transmission and are ready to return to the ship what letter will you flash?
End of transmission.
You're to get this to Hamburg as fast as you can make the transmission.
And then one day, when he was working on her car I got him to explain how the automatic transmission worked.
Transmission interval, 2, 500 yards.
Maybe something to do with transmission.
Roger your transmission.
Kill transmission.
There's a transmission going on.
Well, the transmission's coming off.
Captain, transmission from HQ.
It was a transmission from Director Pyotr.
Compound transmission of the pandemonium with percussion. and spasmodic frantic disintegration.
You sure it's her transmission?
I know a safe place for our transmission.
Tell me; are you able to do a radio transmission?
Well, a transmission, you know that!
There won't be any transmission tonight!
And then one day, when he was working on her car, I got him to explain how the automatic transmission worked.
Now, the power of the explosion is exerted on a piston and through connecting rod and crankshaft through transmission, thence to rear wheels.
Please, not so loud. There's a transmission going on.
I knew it! Compound transmission of the pandemonium with percussion and spasmodic frantic disintegration!
It gives us the energy for a power transmission a thousand times greater than any sound transmitter ever conceived.
It's the very heart of the transmission.
In the midst of a transmission in which he described the fabulous ice-capped poles of the red planet, contact was suddenly lost.
A man in the cafe, who knows the results before the teleprinter transmission, - could bet on the winner. - Precisely.
We tried to transmit via televisor, but atmospheric conditions made transmission impossible.
In a factory, nobody would dream of entrusting the fabrication of a carburettor or a transmission to amateurs.
There shouldn't even be any power for transmission.
Your transmission's weak.
Yes. There is the possibility of the transmission of energy.
Extraordinary transmission.
Apparently they monitored a transmission eight minutes ago. from Burpelson Air Force Base.
Now, at approximately the 50 mile mark, car number 3, it loses its transmission.

News and current affairs

Perhaps the transmission mechanism would be through US banks, many of which remain vulnerable, owing to thin capitalization and huge portfolios of mortgages booked far above their market value.
If Social Security is a slow tire leak, then the post-2020 General Fund is an urgent brake job, Medicare and Medicaid are a melted transmission, and the budget deficit is the equivalent of having just crashed into a tree.
Pockets of polio transmission also persist in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
Laws criminalizing the transmission of HIV undermine public health because they deter people who are HIV-positive and those at risk of acquiring the virus from seeking testing, counseling, and treatment.
This is the basic method to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty.
Geographical restriction and specialized transmission mean that in most time periods, most pathogens occur in a small number of host species, often only one, but retain the ability to infect more.
Pathogens have highly specialized transmission modes, and groups of closely related species tend to be very similar.
But it is critical that the country's upcoming election does not jeopardize recent gains, particularly during the current low-transmission season, which is the best opportunity to stop the disease in its tracks.
Fortunately, there is no evidence of transmission, but we may not be so lucky in the future.
Interconnection would also reduce the number of new onshore transmission lines the country needs.
But, given the high-speed data transmission capacities of current telecommunications and information technology, it is now possible to reduce business travel significantly.
Cheaper photovoltaic cells may enable remote villages to get electricity without the fixed costs of long transmission lines.
Responses to a survey that my colleague Karl Case and I conducted in 1988 during the US boom revealed that casual word-of-mouth transmission of emotional excitement played a big role in purchasing decisions.
Indeed, word-of-mouth transmission of excitement about real estate prices is nearly as prevalent now as in 1988.
The hallmarks of this narrative are familiar to anyone who has studied the transmission of certain story categories in times of crisis.
The transmission effects through trade linkages are just as worrying.
Indeed, Qaddafi's belief that the bureaucracy impeded the transmission of his message to the masses spurred him to dismantle ministries periodically and place privileged personal relationships above institutional hierarchies.
Acquiescing to such censorship might have been necessary when printing presses, delivery trucks, news kiosks, or transmission towers were the only way to get printed publications or broadcast programs to news consumers.
China has invested billions of dollars in African oil production, mining, transportation, electricity production and transmission, telecommunications, and other infrastructure.
If IDUs inject heroin or related opiates - as is primarily the case in Eastern Europe - establishing opiate substitution programs with methadone or buprenorphine can dramatically slow HIV transmission.
Transmission in the US was nearly impossible, owing to the strength of the US health system, it was thought.
Our programs to purchase asset-backed securities and covered bonds were tailored to help lubricate further the transmission of lower funding costs from banks to customers.
In terms of transmission, the Fed has focused on the so-called wealth effect.
Pathogens also have specialized means of transmission from host to host.
But there are significant obstacles to the widespread use of solar energy and other sources of renewable electricity, including a desperate need for cheaper, more efficient means of energy storage and transmission.
And its transmission to two nurses responsible for Duncan's care - likely resulting from several breaches of medical protocol - has focused intense scrutiny on US preparedness for a possible outbreak.

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