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10 Language-to-English Dictionariestransmisión
Pronunciation / Transliteration: trans-mi-sión
"La transmisión en vivo fue un éxito."
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A transmission of a program or information by radio or television.
"We watched the live broadcast of the event."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from agricultural terminology, combining the Old Norse 'breiðr' (broad) and the Middle English 'casten' (to throw), originally describing the method of scattering seeds widely by hand. By the 19th and 20th centuries, the term evolved metaphorically to describe the dissemination of audio and video signals across wide geographic areas via radio, television, and digital networks.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Broadcast" is said worldwide
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émission
Transliteration: é-mi-sion
"Cette émission est diffusée en direct."
Sendung
Transliteration: Sen-dung
"Die Sendung beginnt um acht Uhr."
trasmissione
Transliteration: tras-mis-sio-ne
"La trasmissione è iniziata in ritardo."
transmisión
Transliteration: trans-mi-sión
"La transmisión en vivo fue un éxito."
transmissão
Transliteration: trans-mis-são
"A transmissão do jogo foi excelente."
प्रसारण
Transliteration: prasāran
"यह एक सीधा प्रसारण है।"
广播
Transliteration: guǎngbō
"这个节目正在现场广播。"
방송
Transliteration: bang-song
"뉴스 방송이 곧 시작됩니다."
放送
Transliteration: hōsō
"そのニュースは全国に放送された。"
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