transmit

[trans-mit, tranz-]

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verb (used with object), trans·mit·ted, trans·mit·ting.

to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.

to communicate, as information or news.

to pass or spread (disease, infection, etc.) to another.

to pass on (a genetic characteristic) from parent to offspring: The mother transmitted her red hair to her daughter.

Physics.

to cause (light, heat, sound, etc.) to pass through a medium.
to convey or pass along (an impulse, force, motion, etc.).
to permit (light, heat, etc.) to pass through: Glass transmits light.

Radio and Television. to emit (electromagnetic waves).

verb (used without object), trans·mit·ted, trans·mit·ting.

to send a signal by wire, radio, or television waves.

to pass on a right or obligation to heirs or descendants.

Origin of transmit

1350–1400; Middle English transmitten < Latin trānsmittere to send across, equivalent to trāns- trans- + mittere to send

Related formstrans·mit·ta·ble, trans·mit·ti·ble, adjectivenon·trans·mit·ti·ble, adjectivepre·trans·mit, verb (used with object), pre·trans·mit·ted, pre·trans·mit·ting.re·trans·mit, verb (used with object), re·trans·mit·ted, re·trans·mit·ting.un·trans·mit·ted, adjective

Synonyms for transmit

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1. transfer, remit. 2. bear.

Synonym study

2. See carry.

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Related Words for transmit

relay, disseminate, transfer, conduct, impart, broadcast, spread, convey, address, carry, translate, transport, break, funnel, transfuse, pipe, remit, route, instill, siphon

Examples from the Web for transmit

Contemporary Examples of transmit

All it needs is one more “pipe” to select and transmit the crucial information.
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Clive Irving
December 29, 2014
It is true that gay and bisexual men are far more likely to transmit HIV than other population groups.
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November 22, 2014
“Source cases” with very high HIV viral loads were six times more likely to transmit HIV to health-care workers.
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October 12, 2014
He requested a GPS device from the Americans and radio frequencies to transmit information back to the U.S. forces.
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Josh Rogin, Eli Lake
June 7, 2014
But the cable corridors build into the panels could also house fiber-optic cable that transmit data.
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The Daily Beast
June 3, 2014

Historical Examples of transmit

Miss Hoag, through her "control," began to receive and transmit "messages."
Galusha the Magnificent
Joseph C. Lincoln
Besides this, he had promised to transmit from time to time some sort of message.
Pathfinder
Alan Douglas
Patrick Henry said, "We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery."
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence
Various
Just as I send mine every night to Bob, for him to transmit by wireless.
The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men
Francis William Rolt-Wheeler
If you print any poems, I especially desire you will transmit them to me.
Letters of Edward FitzGerald
Edward FitzGerald

British Dictionary definitions for transmit

transmit

verb -mits, -mitting or -mitted

(tr) to pass or cause to go from one place or person to another; transfer

(tr) to pass on or impart (a disease, infection, etc)

(tr) to hand down to posterity

(tr; usually passive) to pass (an inheritable characteristic) from parent to offspring

to allow the passage of (particles, energy, etc)radio waves are transmitted through the atmosphere

to send out (signals) by means of radio waves or along a transmission line
to broadcast (a radio or television programme)

(tr) to transfer (a force, motion, power, etc) from one part of a mechanical system to another

Derived Formstransmittable or transmittible, adjectivetransmittal, noun

Word Origin for transmit

C14: from Latin transmittere to send across, from trans- + mittere to send

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Word Origin and History for transmit

c.1400, from Latin transmittere "send across, transfer, pass on," from trans- "across" (see trans-) + mittere "to send" (see mission). Related: Transmitted; transmitting.

transmit in Medicine

transmit

[trăns-mĭt′, trănz-]

v.

To send from one person, thing, or place to another; convey.

To cause to spread; pass on.

To impart or convey to others by heredity or inheritance; hand down.

Related formstrans•mit′ta•ble adj.