Legacy vs. Transmission — What's the Difference?

An amount of money or property left to someone in a will

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

An applicant to a particular college or university who is regarded preferentially because a parent or other relative attended the same institution

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

Denoting or relating to software or hardware that has been superseded but is difficult to replace because of its wide use.

The act or process of transmitting.

Money or property given to another by will.

The fact of being transmitted.

Something handed down from an ancestor or a predecessor or from the past

Something, such as a message, that is transmitted.

An individual who is either an applicant to an educational institution or a matriculated student and is the child of an alumna or alumnus.

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.

Retained under an obsolescent or discarded system, chiefly for purposes of reference

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

(legal) Money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.

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

Something inherited from a predecessor or the past.

The fact of being transmitted.

(education) The descendant of an alumnus.

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

Left over from the past; no longer current.

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

A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.

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

A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; - obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like.

(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.

(law) a gift of personal property by will

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

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.

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.

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 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