transmission
trans mi shuhn
- n the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted
- n communication by means of transmitted signals
- n the fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance
- n an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted
- n the gears that transmit power from an automobile engine via the driveshaft to the live axle
- A research team in Texas used a common antiretroviral drug to halt the transmission of HIV in lab mice engineered to behave like humans.
- Why not use the power of these ARVs to prevent an HIV transmission or infection from taking hold in the first place? Bill and Melinda Gates asked that provocative question on the .
- When he soberly asks why the ashes are necessary, she replies that they enhance "spiritual transmission" between healer and patient.