selective transmission

noun

, Automotive.

1. a transmission in which the available forward and reverse gears may be engaged in any order, without passing progressively through the different changes of gear.

Example Sentences

Scientists have long known that the eyes and the ears are not the actual instruments of sight and hearing, but highly selective transmission stations which pick up light and sound waves, translate them into electrical impulses, and carry them to the visual and auditory areas of the brain.

From Time Magazine Archive

To him planetary and selective transmission were even as conic sections.

From Project Gutenberg