transmissibility

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

References

• “transmissibility”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.