transmission

English

Alternative forms

• trans (abbreviation)
• xmission (abbreviation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin transmissionem (accusative of transmissio), from transmittere.

Pronunciation

• enPR: trănsmĭ'shən, trănzmĭ'shən IPA^(key): /tɹænsˈmɪʃən/, /tɹænzˈmɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

Noun

transmission (countable and uncountable, plural transmissions)

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.

   Hyponyms: broadcast, narrowcast

4. (biology) The passage of a nerve impulse across synapses.
5. (automotive) 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).

   Synonyms: gearbox (metonymically), tranny (informal)

   Hyponyms: automatic transmission, continuously variable transmission, CVT, DCT, MCT, manual transmission, semi-automatic transmission, stickshift, stick shift; slushbox (informal)

   Any vehicle with an internal combustion engine needs a transmission that can alter the gear ratio (engine RPM to wheel RPM) as the vehicle's speed changes.

6. (law) 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.

Synonyms

• (several senses): outsending

Derived terms

• automated manual transmission
• automatic transmission
• clutchless manual transmission
• continuously variable transmission
• cotransmission
• cross-transmission
• cryo-transmission
• cryo-transmission electron micrograph
• cryo-transmission electron microscope
• cryo-transmission electron microscopy
• extraordinary optical transmission
• gliotransmission
• heterotransmission
• high-voltage transmission line
• intertransmission
• manual transmission
• mechanotransmission
• monochromated scanning transmission electron microscope
• multitransmission
• neurotransmission
• nontransmission
• overtransmission
• pretransmission
• retransmission
• scanning transmission electron microscope
• semi-automatic transmission
• standard transmission
• synchronized transmission
• teletransmission
• transaxle
• transflection
• Transmission Control Protocol
• transmissioned
• transmission electron diffraction
• transmission electron microscope
• transmission electron microscopy
• transmission function
• transmissionism
• transmissionist
• transmissionless
• transmission line
• transmission medium
• transmission mount
• transmission time
• transmission tower
• xenotransmission

 

Related terms

• transmissible
• transmissive

Translations

act of transmitting

• Bulgarian: предаване (bg) (predavane)
• Catalan: transmissió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傳輸／传输 (zh) (chuánshū)

• Czech: přenos (cs) m, vysílání (cs) n
• Esperanto: transdono
• Estonian: ülekanne
• Finnish: lähetys (fi), lähettäminen (fi), välittäminen (fi) (information), siirto (fi) (power), tartuttaminen (fi) (disease)
• French: transmission (fr) f
• Galician: transmisión (gl) f
• Georgian: გადაცემა (gadacema), გაგზავნა (gagzavna)
• German: Übertragung (de) f
• Greek: μετάδοση (el) f (metádosi)

  Ancient: παράδοσις f (parádosis)

• Japanese: 転送 (ja) (てんそう, tensō), 伝送 (ja) (でんそう, densō)
• Luxembourgish: Iwwerdroung f
• Portuguese: transmissão (pt) f
• Romanian: transmitere (ro) f, transmisie (ro) f
• Russian: переда́ча (ru) f (peredáča), перено́с (ru) m (perenós), пересы́лка (ru) f (peresýlka)
• Serbo-Croatian: пренос m (prenos), трансмисија f (transmisija)
• Swedish: överföring (sv) c, transmission (sv) c

fact of being transmitted

• Catalan: transmissió (ca) f
• Finnish: välittyminen (fi) (information), siirtyminen (fi) (power), tarttuminen (fi) (disease)
• Greek: μετάδοση (el) f (metádosi), διάδοση (el) f (diádosi)
• Portuguese: transmissão (pt) f

something transmitted

• Catalan: transmissió (ca) f
• Czech: vysílání (cs) n
• Finnish: lähetys (fi), tartunta (fi)
• French: transmission (fr) f
• Greek: μετάδοση (el) f (metádosi)
• Portuguese: transmissão (pt) f
• Swedish: överföring (sv) c, transmission (sv) c

passage of a nerve impulse

• Catalan: transmissió (ca) f
• Finnish: välittyminen (fi)
• Greek: μεταβίβαση (el) f (metavívasi)
• Portuguese: transmissão (pt) f

assembly of gears

• Azerbaijani: ötürmə
• Catalan: transmissió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 變速器／变速器 (zh) (biànsùqì)

• Czech: převodovka (cs) f
• Finnish: vaihteisto (fi), voimansiirto (fi)
• French: boite de vitesses (fr) f
• Galician: transmisión (gl) f
• Georgian: კოლოფი (ka) (ḳolopi), ტრანსმისია (ṭransmisia)
• German: Getriebe (de) n
• Greek: κιβώτιο ταχυτήτων n (kivótio tachytíton), ταχύτητες f pl (tachýtites)
• Japanese: トランスミッション (ja) (toransumisshon), 変速機 (ja) (へんそくき, hensokuki), 変速装置 (ja) (へんそくそうち, hensoku-sōchi)
• Portuguese: caixa de câmbio f
• Romanian: transmisie (ro) f, angrenaj (ro) n
• Russian: трансми́ссия (ru) f (transmíssija), коро́бка переключе́ния переда́ч f (koróbka pereključénija peredáč), коро́бка переда́ч (ru) f (koróbka peredáč)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мењач m, мјењач m

  Roman: menjač m, mjenjač (sh) m

• Spanish: caja de cambios f
• Swedish: växellåda (sv) c

passing of a communicable disease

• Bulgarian: предаване (bg) n (predavane)
• Catalan: transmissió (ca) f
• Dutch: overdracht (nl) f, transmissie (nl) f
• French: transmission (fr)
• Italian: trasmissione (it)
• Portuguese: transmissão (pt)
• Spanish: transmisión (es)
• Welsh: trosglwyddiad m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} overføring
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} transmisión (es) f

Danish

Noun

transmission c (singular definite transmissionen, plural indefinite transmissioner)

1. transmission

Declension

Declension of transmission

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	transmission	transmissionen	transmissioner	transmissionerne
genitive	transmissions	transmissionens	transmissioners	transmissionernes

Further reading

• “transmission” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “transmission” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trānsmissiōnem, from transmittere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃s.mi.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔ̃
• Homophone: transmissions

Noun

transmission f (plural transmissions)

1. transmission

Derived terms

• courroie de transmission

Related terms

• transmettre

Descendants

• → Turkish: transmisyon

Further reading

• “transmission”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Swedish

Noun

transmission c

1. transmission

Declension

Declension of transmission

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	transmission	transmissions
	definite	transmissionen	transmissionens
plural	indefinite	transmissioner	transmissioners
	definite	transmissionerna	transmissionernas