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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
transmission
/tɹænsˈmɪʃən/
noun
an electronic signal that has been sent by radio waves; a force that has been transferred from one machine to another
- “There might have been an error during transmission.”Tatoeba
- “Your car has a manual transmission.”Tatoeba
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Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)