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1.nounThe act of transmitting, e.g. data or electric power.
2.nounThe fact of being transmitted.
3.nounSomething that is transmitted, such as a message, picture or a disease; the sending of such a thing.
4.nounThe passage of a nerve impulse across synapses.
5.nounAn assembly of gears through which power is transmitted from the engine to the driveshaft in a motor car / automobile; a gearbox.
6.nounThe 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.noun(medicine, biology) The passing of a communicable disease from an infected host individual or group to a conspecific individual or group.