continuously variable transmission

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noun Automotive, Machinery.

a transmission, typically using rubber belts and pulleys, in which the ratio of the rotational speeds of two shafts, as the drive shaft and driven shaft of a vehicle, can be varied continuously within a given range, providing an infinite number of possible ratios. Abbreviation: CVT

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How to use continuously variable transmission in a sentence

Education controls the transmission of values and molds the spirit before dominating the soul.
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Poverty, alienation, estrangement, continuously aggravated by racism, overt and institutional.
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They seemed a little creepy to me, particular the song “Transmission.”
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We continuously pause to pull them out while Zalwar Khan and his companion smirk at us and chew unbothered.
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But turnout tends to be far more variable in a midterm election and modeling become far difficult.
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It is small in cloudy swelling from toxins and drugs, and variable in renal tuberculosis and neoplasms.
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He took her arm and led her away, looking anxiously and continuously down into her face.
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As gave Tom no rest, but questioned him eagerly and continuously during the whole night about the things which concerned his soul.
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Its disadvantage is that it introduces, with the bread, a variable amount of lactic acid and numerous yeast-cells.
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He intends that he shall take the name of Arden, and earn the transmission of the title, or the distinction of a greater one.
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