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Definition of Transmission

Transmission

  1. The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country to another; the transmission of rights, titles, or privileges, from father to son, or from one generation to another.
  2. The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor or successors any inheritance, legacy, right, or privilege, to which he is entitled, even if he should die without enjoying or exercising it.

Transmission Quotations

Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.
Steve Jobs

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
Maria Montessori

Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Thomas J. Watson
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Transmission Translations

transmission in French is radiodiffusion, transmission
transmission in Italian is spedizione

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