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Security[]

"Transmission also includes movement involving the actual transfer of custody and responsibility for a document or other classified material from one authorized addressee to another."[1]

Telecommunications[]

Transmission is

[t]he act of transferring a sign, signal, writing, image, message, sound, data, or other form of intelligence (information) from one location to another by a wire, radio, electromagnetic, photo-electronic, or photo-optical system.[2]
[t]he sending of information from one place to another by radio, microwave, laser, or other non- connective methods, as well as by cable, wire, or other connective medium.[3]

U.S. copyright law[]

A transmission is "either an initial transmission or a retransmission."[4]

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