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transmissible

[ trans-mis-uh-buhl, tranz- ]

adjective

  1. capable of being transmitted.


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Other Words From

  • trans·missi·bili·ty noun
  • untrans·missi·ble adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of transmissible1

1635–45; < Latin trānsmiss ( us ) ( transmission ) + -ible

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Example Sentences

Numbers of cases have gone down slightly this summer, but this tends to be a time when the virus is naturally less transmissible.

These little round viruses, though, have proven all too hardy and extremely transmissible.

Many physicians hold that in the tertiary stage the disease is not transmissible, but that statement is not true.

We have abundant evidence to show that the personal totem is transmissible and hereditable.

Likewise, abnormal attributes of individual parents are less transmissible than the general characteristics of the family.

Sex is not a transmissible attribute inherited directly from the parents.

But only such changes are transmissible to future generations as have resulted from modifications arising in the idioplasm.

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