Transaction vs. Transmission — What's the Difference?

An instance of buying or selling something

The action or process of transmitting something or the state of being transmitted

Published reports of proceedings at the meetings of a learned society.

The mechanism by which power is transmitted from an engine to the axle in a motor vehicle

An input message to a computer system dealt with as a single unit of work

The act or process of transmitting.

The act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.

The fact of being transmitted.

Something transacted, especially a business agreement or exchange.

Something, such as a message, that is transmitted.

Communication involving two or more people that affects all those involved; personal interaction

An assembly, as in a motor vehicle, that transmits power from an engine to a driving axle, usually having a manually or automatically adjustable mechanism to control the balance of power and speed. Also called gearbox.

Transactions A record of business conducted at a meeting; proceedings.

The sending of a signal, picture, or other information from a transmitter.

The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).

The act of transmitting, e.g. data or electric power.

A deal or business agreement. en

The fact of being transmitted.

An exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.

Something that is transmitted, such as a message, picture, or a disease; the sending of such a thing.

(finance) The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.

(biology) The passage of a nerve impulse across synapses.

(computing) An atomic operation; a message, data modification, or other procedure that is guaranteed to perform completely or not at all (e.g. a database transaction).

(automotive) An assembly of gears through which power is transmitted from the engine to the driveshaft in a motor car / automobile; a gearbox.

(especially in plural) A record of the proceedings of a learned society.

(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.

(transactional analysis) A social interaction.

(medicine, biology) The passing of a communicable disease from an infected host individual or group to a conspecific individual or group.

The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair; performance.

The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country to another; the transmission of rights, titles, or privileges, from father to son, or from one generation to another.

That which is done; an affair; as, the transactions on the exchange.

The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor or successors any inheritance, legacy, right, or privilege, to which he is entitled, even if he should die without enjoying or exercising it.

An adjustment of a dispute between parties by mutual agreement.

The mechanism within a vehicle which transmits rotational power from the engine to the axle of the wheel propelling the vehicle; it includes the gears and gear-changing mechanism as well as the propeller shaft.

The act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities);

The process or event of sending signals by means of a radio-frequency wave from an electronic transmitter to a receiving device.

The act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted

Communication by means of transmitted signals

The fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance

An incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted

The gears that transmit power from an automobile engine via the driveshaft to the live axle