transmissibility
How easily spread
Transmissibility is the capacity to be transmitted or passed from one thing to another.
The term appears most often in epidemiology, where it measures how readily a disease spreads between hosts: The new variant showed increased transmissibility.
It also applies to anything that can be conveyed—traits, signals, or properties: the transmissibility of cultural values across generations.
Disease spread by contact
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
- pathogenDisease-causing microorganism
- virusMicroscopic infectious agent
- bacteriaNucleus-free single-celled organisms
outbreak · pandemic · epidemic · vector · carrier · host · reservoir · incubation
To distribute widely
- propagationAct of spreading widely
- dispersionScattering across space
- disseminationWide distribution of information
- circulationMovement through a system
distribution · permeation · penetration · transfer · movement · migration · mobility · conveyance
Act of spreading widely
- broadcastTransmitted media signal
- signalMessage-conveying cue
- frequencyRate of recurrence
- bandwidthData transmission capacity
wavelength · modulation · attenuation · interference · reception · antenna · electromagnetic · radio
contagion
Disease spread by contact
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
- pathogenDisease-causing microorganism
- virusMicroscopic infectious agent
bacteria · outbreak · pandemic · epidemic · vector · carrier · host · reservoir · incubation · quarantine
spread
To distribute widely
- propagationAct of spreading widely
- dispersionScattering across space
- disseminationWide distribution of information
circulation · distribution · permeation · penetration · transfer · movement · migration · mobility · conveyance · flow
propagation
Act of spreading widely
bandwidth · wavelength · modulation · attenuation · interference · reception · antenna · electromagnetic · radio · wireless
inheritance
Property received from ancestors
- heredityGenetic trait transmission
- heritabilityGenetic share of variation
- alleleGene variant at one locus
dominant · recessive · genotype · phenotype · chromosome · DNA · traits · offspring · progeny · pedigree
- petroleum engineeringoil recovery, permeability, porosity, drilling, horizontal drilling
- pathogenicityvirulence, infectivity, pathogenicity, lethality, invasiveness
- viral evolutionmutation, variant, strain, viral strain, mutant
- Virologyviral replication, viral shedding, bacteriophage, tropism, DNA virus
transmissibilityimpermeability
Resistance to passage
immobility · inertness · stability · stasis · isolation
transmissibilitycontainment
Preventing hostile expansion
controllability · boundedness · localization · sequestration · restriction
transmit, transmission, transmitter, transmissions, transmissible, transmittal