TRANSMISSION

noun Etymology: Middle French, from Latin ~-, transmissio, from transmittere to transmit Date: 1611 an act, process, or instance of transmitting , the passage of radio waves in the space between transmitting and receiving stations, an assembly of parts including the speed-changing gears and the propeller shaft by which the power is transmitted from an engine to a live axle, something that is transmitted ; message , transmissive adjective transmissivity noun