transmissibility

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English

Noun

transmissibility (countable and uncountable, plural transmissibilities)

  1. (uncountable) The condition of being transmissible
    • 1906, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers: Bills, volume 137:
      Arloing states that human and bovine tuberculosis are of the same nature and intertransmissible, and that the transmissibility of bovine tuberculosis to man is no longer questioned.
    • 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
      Then, in January, a creeping tsunami of train cancellations, triggered by major staff absences as a result of the aggressive transmissibility of Omicron, heaped further misery on rail users.
  2. (countable) The extent to which something is transmissible

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