transmission transmittal
transmitting | the act of sending a message, causing a message to be transmitted |
twin bill
doubleheader
double feature | two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day) |
clasp
clench
clutch
clutches
grasp
grip
hold | the act of grasping, he released his clasp on my arm, he has a strong grip for an old man, she kept a firm hold on the railing |
automatic transmission
automatic drive | a transmission that automatically changes the gears according to the speed of the car |
| cable line transmission line | a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power |
| clutch | a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism, this year's model has an improved clutch |
| clutch clutch pedal | a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism, he smoothely released the clutch with one foot and stepped on the gas with the other |
clutch bag
clutch | a woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand |
cone clutch
cone friction clutch | a friction clutch in which the frictional surfaces are cone-shaped |
counterpart
similitude
twin | a duplicate copy |
DIP switch
dual inline package switch | (computer science) one of a set of small on-off switches mounted in computer hardware, used in place of jumpers to configure the machine for a user |
| disk clutch | a friction clutch in which the frictional surfaces are disks |
divided highway
dual carriageway | a highway divided down the middle by a barrier that separates traffic going in different directions, in Britain they call a divided highway a dual carriageway |
double-prop
double-propeller plane
twin-prop
twin-propeller-plane | a propeller plane with an engine that drives two propellers in opposite directions (for stability) |
| dual scan display | a type of passive matrix display in which the top and bottom half of the screen are refreshed simultaneously |
fiber-optic transmission system
fibre-optic transmission system
FOTS | a communication system using fiber optic cables |
| friction clutch | a clutch in which one part turns the other by the friction between them |
hydraulic transmission
hydraulic transmission system | a transmission that depends on a hydraulic system |
slip clutch
slip friction clutch | a friction clutch that will slip when the torque is too great |
standard transmission
stick shift | a transmission that is operated manually with a gear lever and a clutch pedal |
| transmission transmission system | the gears that transmit power from an automobile engine via the driveshaft to the live axle |
| transmission shaft | rotating shaft that transmits rotary motion from the engine to the differential |
| twin bed | one of a pair of identical beds |
widebody aircraft
wide-body aircraft
wide-body
twin-aisle airplane | a commercial airliner with two aisles |
World Trade Center
WTC
twin towers | twin skyscrapersstories high in New York City, built feet tall into , destroyed by a terrorist attack on September , |
optical density
transmission density
photographic density
absorbance | (physics) a measure of the extent to which a substance transmits light or other electromagnetic radiation |
| transmission | communication by means of transmitted signals |
channel
transmission channel | a path over which electrical signals can pass, a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company |
transmission control protocol
TCP | a protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another, TCP uses a retransmission strategy to insure that data will not be lost in transmission |
transmission control protocol
internet protocol
TCP
IP | a set of protocols (including TCP) developed for the internet in the s to get data from one network device to another |
infection
contagion
transmission | an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted |
batch
clutch | a collection of things or persons to be handled together |
| clutch | a number of birds hatched at the same time |
| Twin Falls | a town on the Snake River in south central Idaho near the Twin Falls |
| Twin Cities | nickname for Saint Paul and Minneapolis |
| airborne transmission | a transmission mechanism in the which the infectious agent is spread as an aerosol and usually enters a person through the respiratory tract |
| direct transmission | a transmission mechanism in which the infectious agent is transferred directly into the body via touching or biting or kissing or sexual intercourse or by droplets entering the eye or nose or mouth |
| indirect transmission | a transmission mechanism in which the infectious agent is transferred to the person by a fomite of vector |
| transmission mechanism | any mechanism whereby an infectious agent is spread from a reservoir to a human being |
Twin
Twin Falls | a waterfall in the Snake River in southern Idaho |
| vector-borne transmission | indirect transmission of an infectious agent that occurs when a vector bites or touches a person |
| vehicle-borne transmission | indirect transmission of an infectious agent that occurs when a vehicle (or fomite) touches a person's body or is ingested |
Gemini
Twin | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Gemini |
fraternal twin
dizygotic twin | either of two twins who developed from two separate fertilized eggs |
identical twin
monozygotic twin
monozygous twin | either of two twins developed from the same fertilized ovum (having the same genetic material) |
Siamese twin
conjoined twin | one of a pair of identical twins born with their bodies joined at some point |
| twin | either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy |
transmittance
transmission | the fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance |
| clutch | a tense critical situation, he is a good man in the clutch |
transmission time
TRM | the coordinated universal time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body |