transmit
Americanverb (used with object)
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to send or forward, as to a recipient or destination; dispatch; convey.
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to communicate, as information or news.
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- bear
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to pass or spread (disease, infection, etc.) to another.
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to pass on (a genetic characteristic) from parent to offspring.
The mother transmitted her red hair to her daughter.
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Physics.
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to cause (light, heat, sound, etc.) to pass through a medium.
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to convey or pass along (an impulse, force, motion, etc.).
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to permit (light, heat, etc.) to pass through.
Glass transmits light.
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Radio and Television. to emit (electromagnetic waves).
verb (used without object)
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to send a signal by wire, radio, or television waves.
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to pass on a right or obligation to heirs or descendants.
verb
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(tr) to pass or cause to go from one place or person to another; transfer
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(tr) to pass on or impart (a disease, infection, etc)
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(tr) to hand down to posterity
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(tr; usually passive) to pass (an inheritable characteristic) from parent to offspring
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to allow the passage of (particles, energy, etc)
radio waves are transmitted through the atmosphere
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to send out (signals) by means of radio waves or along a transmission line
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to broadcast (a radio or television programme)
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(tr) to transfer (a force, motion, power, etc) from one part of a mechanical system to another
Related Words
See carry.
Other Word Forms
- nontransmittible adjective
- pretransmit verb (used with object)
- retransmit verb (used with object)
- transmittable adjective
- transmittal noun
- transmittible adjective
- untransmitted adjective
Etymology
Origin of transmit
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English transmitten, from Latin trānsmittere “to send across,” from trāns- trans- + mittere “to send”
Example Sentences
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This property allows data to be transmitted even when obstacles block a direct path between sender and receiver.
From Science Daily
Even so, the authors stress that much more research is required to understand the diversity of circoviruses in cetaceans, how they are transmitted, and what effects they may have on whale and orca health.
From Science Daily
This approach is reshaping how information can be transmitted, measured, and processed by merging quantum information science with carefully engineered patterns of light in space and time.
From Science Daily
Those inherited ideas weren’t abstract principles—they were transmitted directly from father to son.
Historically, most of the U.K.’s electricity came from coal-fired power stations in the center of the country, which transmitted out across the island.
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