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selective transmission

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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.

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

From Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures by Glass, Montague

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