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transmission

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


NOUN
a mechanism for transmitting power
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It interrogated the criteria of credibility themselves—what makes a teaching trustworthy, what makes a source authoritative, what distinguishes faithful transmission from motivated distortion.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

The DRC has limited capacity to conduct laboratory tests to confirm the transmission of cases.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

That connection is important because mGluR1 has already been linked to synaptic transmission, the communication between neurons.

From Science Daily • May 27, 2026

The question of whether the next generation of compute infrastructure ends up vertically integrated all the way to the transmission wire is worth asking before the answer becomes obvious.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

They managed to warm up the radio enough to try to make one last transmission of their location to Moscow.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein




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