Edastus

Edastus is an Estonian noun meaning transmission or broadcast. It denotes the act or process of transferring information, signals, or material from one entity to another. The word is derived from the verb edastama, meaning to transmit or relay.

In broadcasting and media, edastus refers to the delivery of radio or television content from studios to transmitters and, ultimately, to audiences. In medicine and epidemiology, it is used to describe the transmission of pathogens between individuals or populations, including routes such as contact, droplets, airborne spread, or vectors.

In information technology and telecommunications, edastus covers data transmission and communications over networks, including wired and wireless transfer, protocols, bandwidth, latency, and throughput. The term also appears in compound forms such as edastuskanal (transmission channel) and edastusvõrk (transmission network), depending on context.

Usage notes: In Estonian, edastus is a broad term that emphasizes the transfer of signals or information rather than physical delivery of objects. It is common in technical, scientific, and media discourse and is typically preferred when describing processes of passing data or content from one point to another.