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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A transmission.
  • noun Physics The ratio of the radiant energy transmitted to the total radiant energy incident on a given body.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; transmission; transfer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Transmission.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a transmission
  • noun physics the fraction of incident light, or other radiation, that passes through a substance

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance

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