transmission
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
transmission/transˈmɪʃn/
▶noun
- 1 the action or process of transmitting or the state of being transmitted.
- 2 a programme or signal that is transmitted.
- 3 the mechanism by which power is transmitted from an engine to the axle in a motor vehicle.
'transmission' also found in these Oxford entries:
acetylcholinesterase
- Ampakine
- apostolic succession
- bandwidth
- baud
- broadcast
- channel
- clutch
- codec
- compander
- conduction
- CVT
- descent
- diesel-hydraulic
- distort
- drive
- drivetrain
- DSL
- duplex
- EOT
- fax
- final drive
- four-wheel drive
- front-wheel drive
- GABA
- garble
- gearbox
- GPRS
- half-duplex
- heterodyne
- jam
- kick-down
- layshaft
- manual
- monophonic
- multiplex
- narrowcast
- nerve gas
- packetize
- packet switching
- presynaptic
- protocol
- pulley
- radio
- radio-telephone
- rear-wheel drive
- register
- scan
- scramble
- shaft
