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Transfer vs Transmission - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between transfer and transmission

is that transfer is the act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another while transmission is the act of transmitting, e.g. data or electric power.

As a verb transfer

is to move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.

transfer

Verb

(transferr)
  • To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
  • to transfer''' the laws of one country to another; to '''transfer suspicion
  • To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
  • to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone
  • To be or become transferred.
  • (legal) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
  • The title to land is transferred by deed.

    Synonyms

    * carry over, move, onpass * (convey impression of from one surface to another) copy, transpose * (to be or become transferred)

    Derived terms

    * transferee * transferor

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
  • (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
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  • (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
  • A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
  • (medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.
  • Synonyms

    * (act) transferal, transference * (instance) transferal

    Usage notes

    * In the United Kingdom education system the noun is used to define a move from one school to another, for example from primary school to secondary school. Contrast with transition which is used to define any move within or between schools, for example, a move from one year group to the next.

    transmission

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * (l) * (assembly of gears) gearbox

    Derived terms

    * automatic transmission * cryo-transmission * manual transmission * standard transmission * synchronized transmission * transmission line * transmission medium * transmission electron microscope * Transmission Control Protocol