Other forms: transmissions
Transmission is the sending out of a signal, or the gears in a car. Live transmission, transmission of the disease, an automatic transmission.
The car sense is American; British English says gearbox. In epidemiology, transmission is how an infection passes from one person to another, and cutting it is the whole aim of control measures. The Latin means a sending across.
1nountransmissionThe sending out of a signal.
“The radio transmission was cut off in the middle of the news.”
2noungearsThe gears of a car.
“The old truck's transmission made a grinding noise every time he changed gear.”
transmission is a sending, or a mechanism.
Latin transmissio comes from transmittere, to send across — trans plus mittere, to send.
Proto-Indo-European
*mey- (change)
Latin
transmissionem
English, today
transmission
Borrowed from Latin transmissionem (accusative of transmissio), from transmittere.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA