Transmission

//tɹænsˈmɪʃən//

Synonyms for "transmission" (202 found)

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Closest matches (41)

Strong matches (60)

Related words (101)

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Translations

97 translations across 27 languages.

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Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • παράδοσις noun (act of transmitting)

Azerbaijani

1 entries
  • ötürmə noun (assembly of gears)

Bulgarian

2 entries
  • преда́ване noun (act of transmitting)
  • предаване noun (passing of a communicable disease)

Catalan

4 entries
  • transmissió noun (act of transmitting)
  • transmissió noun (fact of being transmitted)
  • transmissió noun (something transmitted)
  • transmissió noun (passage of a nerve impulse)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 傳輸 /传输 noun (act of transmitting)
  • 變速器 /变速器 noun (assembly of gears)

Czech

4 entries
  • přenos noun (act of transmitting)
  • převodovka noun (assembly of gears)
  • vysílání noun (act of transmitting)
  • vysílání noun (something transmitted)

Dutch

2 entries
  • overdracht noun (passing of a communicable disease)
  • transmissie noun (passing of a communicable disease)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • transdono noun (act of transmitting)

Estonian

1 entries
  • ülekanne noun (act of transmitting)

Finnish

4 entries
  • lähettäminen noun (act of transmitting)
  • lähetys noun (act of transmitting)
  • lähetys noun (something transmitted)
  • siirto noun (act of transmitting)

French

4 entries
  • boite de vitesses noun (assembly of gears)
  • transmission noun (act of transmitting)
  • transmission noun (something transmitted)
  • transmission noun (passing of a communicable disease)

Galician

2 entries
  • transmisión noun (act of transmitting)
  • transmisión noun (assembly of gears)

Georgian

4 entries
  • გაგზავნა noun (act of transmitting)
  • გადაცემა noun (act of transmitting)
  • კოლოფი noun (assembly of gears)
  • ტრანსმისია noun (assembly of gears)

German

2 entries
  • Getriebe noun (assembly of gears)
  • Übertragung noun (act of transmitting)

Greek

4 entries
  • διάδοση noun (fact of being transmitted)
  • κιβώτιο ταχυτήτων noun (assembly of gears)
  • μετάδοση noun (act of transmitting)
  • μετάδοση noun (fact of being transmitted)

Hindi

1 entries
  • पारेषण noun (act of transmitting)

Italian

1 entries
  • trasmissione noun (passing of a communicable disease)

Japanese

4 entries
  • トランスミッション noun (assembly of gears)
  • 伝送 noun (act of transmitting)
  • 変速機 noun (assembly of gears)
  • 変速装置 noun (assembly of gears)

Luxembourgish

1 entries
  • Iwwerdroung noun (act of transmitting)

Persian

4 entries
  • تراگسیل noun (act of transmitting)
  • تراگسیل noun (fact of being transmitted)
  • تراگسیل noun (something transmitted)
  • تراگسیل noun (passage of a nerve impulse)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • caixa de câmbio noun (assembly of gears)
  • transmissão noun (act of transmitting)
  • transmissão noun (fact of being transmitted)
  • transmissão noun (something transmitted)

Romanian

4 entries
  • angrenaj noun (assembly of gears)
  • transmisie noun (act of transmitting)
  • transmisie noun (assembly of gears)
  • transmitere noun (act of transmitting)

Russian

4 entries
  • коро́бка переда́ч noun (assembly of gears)
  • коро́бка переключе́ния переда́ч noun (assembly of gears)
  • переда́ча noun (act of transmitting)
  • перено́с noun (act of transmitting)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • menjač noun (assembly of gears)
  • mjenjač noun (assembly of gears)
  • мењач noun (assembly of gears)
  • мјењач noun (assembly of gears)

Spanish

2 entries
  • caja de cambios noun (assembly of gears)
  • transmisión noun (passing of a communicable disease)

Swedish

4 entries
  • transmission noun (act of transmitting)
  • transmission noun (something transmitted)
  • växellåda noun (assembly of gears)
  • överföring noun (act of transmitting)

Welsh

1 entries
  • trosglwyddiad noun (passing of a communicable disease)

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

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Can you operate a manual transmission?

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In the case of language, however, it is only the ability to talk and understand that we inherit genetically; the particular language or languages that we speak are passed on to us not by genetic transmission but by cultural transmission.

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All of these abilities are passed on to us by genetic transmission; we receive them by way of the genes that we inherit from our parents.

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There might have been an error during transmission.

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