Transmission vs Conversion - What's the difference?
transmission | conversion |
The act of transmitting, e.g. data or electric power.
The fact of being transmitted.
Something that is transmitted, such as a message, picture or a disease; the sending of such a thing.
(biology) The passage of a nerve impulse across synapses.
(automotive) An assembly of gears through which power is transmitted from the engine to the driveshaft in a motor car / automobile; a gearbox.
(legal) The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor(s) any inheritance, legacy, right, or privilege, to which he is entitled, even if he should die without enjoying or exercising it.
(medicine, biology) The passing of a communicable disease from an infected host individual or group to a conspecific individual or group.
The act of converting something or someone.
* Francis Bacon
(computing) A software product converted from one platform to another.
* 1988 , Crash (issue 59, December 1988)
(chemistry) A chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.
(rugby) A free-kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.
(American football) An extra point scored by kicking a field goal after scoring a touchdown.
(marketing) An online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be.
(legal) Under the common law, the tort of the taking of someone's personal property with intent to permanently deprive them of it, or damaging property to the extent that the owner is deprived of the utility of that property, thus making the tortfeasor liable for the entire value of the property.
* Hudibras
(linguistics) The process whereby a new word is created without changing the form, often by allowing the word to function as a new part of speech.
(obsolete) The act of turning round; revolution; rotation.
(logic) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or vice versa.
(math) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition.
As nouns the difference between transmission and conversion
is that transmission is the act of transmitting, eg data or electric power while conversion is conversion.transmission
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(en noun)Synonyms
* (l) * (assembly of gears) gearboxDerived terms
* automatic transmission * cryo-transmission * manual transmission * standard transmission * synchronized transmission * transmission line * transmission medium * transmission electron microscope * Transmission Control Protocolconversion
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Noun
(en noun)- His conversion to Islam
- The conversion of the database from ASCII to Unicode
- Artificial conversion of water into ice.
- Mike Follin also programmed the Spectrum version of The Sentinel'' (97%, Issue 40), and the excellent coin-op conversions ''Bubble Bobble'' (90%, Issue 45) and ''Bionic Commando (92%, Issue 53).
- the conversion of a horse
- Or bring my action of conversion / And trover for my goods.
- the conversion''' of equations; the '''conversion of proportions