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transmission

[trans-mish-uhn, tranz-] / trænsˈmɪʃ ən, trænz- /


NOUN
a mechanism for transmitting power
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Across the country, data-center developers are helping finance new generation, modernize transmission and improve system reliability.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

This suggests very few of these cases were caused by mother-to-child transmission.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

“Pathogen transmission is a consequence of general and diverse uses of wildlife by people. This includes illegal and legal trade.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

However, these solutions also require interconnection and backup transmission capacity.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

It had to possess chemical regularity—otherwise, routine processes such as copying and transmission would not work—but it also had to be capable of extraordinary irregularity—or else, the enormous diversity of inheritance could not be explained.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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