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verb (used with object)

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.

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Radio and Television. to emit (electromagnetic waves).

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verb (used without object)

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

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

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a radiation of high penetrating power that originates in outer space and consists partly of high-energy atomic nuclei

a progressive disturbance propagated in a medium without progress or advance by the points themselves, as in the transmission of sound or light

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

Related forms

trans·mit·ta·ble, trans·mit·ti·ble, adjective

non·trans·mit·ti·ble, adjective

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

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

un·trans·mit·ted, adjective

Synonyms
1. transfer, remit. 2. bear. See carry.

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People with severely compromised immune systems can transmit the virus for weeks or months.

Wilcox of six criminal counts of unlawfully using telecommunications devices to transmit.

Conventional radio of this sort cannot, unfortunately, transmit video or web pages.

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People with severely compromised immune systems can transmit the virus for weeks or months.

Wilcox of six criminal counts of unlawfully using telecommunications devices to transmit.

Conventional radio of this sort cannot, unfortunately, transmit video or web pages.

Handling and consuming animal products, such as pork, can transmit some viruses.

We use light to transmit information, using fiber optics.

Lazear contracts the disease and dies, but his death establishes that mosquitoes transmit the disease.

Dual-mode phones, which transmit calls over either cellular or wireless broadband networks, could slash per-minute calling costs.

Mice can be infected with the influenza virus but do not transmit it.

Outside of a magnetic field, the sandwich would not easily transmit an electrical current.

One stressed sovereign can generate instability in financial markets which can transmit stress to other sovereigns.

Foxes also carry and transmit several diseases, eat and spread seeds from noxious weeds, and kill livestock.

Millions of photoreceptor cells residing in the human retina gather light and transmit signals to the brain.

Munch developed a psychologically charged and expressive style to transmit emotional sensation.

They can alter your settings and monitor your moves in order to transmit personal information about you to snoops.

Fish that have the anisakis larvae do not necessarily transmit it to humans.

As the name implies, a university must transmit to its student body all fields of learning.

Some transmit signals from the exterior to the interior.

It's such a challenge to transmit via film the sensations you feel over there.

Arrays of piezoelectric nanowires could capture and transmit that waste energy to nanodevices.

The device uses infrared, similar to that of a television remote control, to transmit audio and visual information.

Each unit can receive audio and transmit it to other units and on to speakers, sold separately, by an infrared signal.

Lectures are a way to transmit large amounts of information to large numbers of students.

Not having to transmit also helped to reduce the device's size.

Fiber-optic cables can transmit more data at a faster pace than other technologies.

These novel devices exploit a property called permittivity, which describe a substance's ability to transmit an electric field.

Facebook and blogs to transmit information traditional media cannot report for fear of reprisal.

Policies, procedures and category rates, as well as the information you'll need to reserve and transmit your ad can be found here.

They have a calling, a vocation, to explore and transmit and encourage the development of knowledge.

News and talk, however, transmit at much lower bit rates.

It will then be able to transmit information about where the shark has been and the depths it has gone to.

Egt is manipulating the insect to die in the right location to transmit the virus to new hosts.

Not all mobile monitoring technology can transmit data wirelessly.

Some people truly don't care what message or imagine their clothes transmit.

Nanoparticles inevitably alter this arrangement, and that may make the mix better able to transmit heat.

It will transmit the animal's location and other information.

The only other serious alternative is orbital solar-electric stations to transmit power back by microwaves.

To transmit the model's results without important caveats is reckless.

The nerve bundles, which are presumed to be light-sensitive, transmit the optical information to the rest of the nervous system.

Secondly, finding human pathogens in human blood in a parasite isn't evidence they transmit those diseases.

Regulations vary from state to state, making it hard to transmit energy across state borders.

Many birds produce odors detectable to people, and mutually preen plumage, which could transmit information.

Aphids, common pests in the tomato garden, feed on plant sap and transmit viruses.

The drug blocks nerve channels that ordinarily transmit pain.

The long-term goal is to equip commercial poultry farms with microphones that transmit clucking to a voice recognition system.

These buoys transmit data to researchers and meteorologists every day.

The windows absorb this radiation, and then transmit it into your home as heat.

If they could act as a team, they might figure out better ways to transmit the data, which would avoid clogged areas.

Researchers are fine-tuning technologies that use standard lighting equipment to cheaply transmit high-speed data streams.

The cell phone is set to transmit readings at regular intervals.

Actin cables transmit electrical signals between cells.

They attach themselves to the bees, suck their blood, transmit disease.

Nokia has filed a patent for a system that would allow a phone to transmit the user's basics emotions along.

Electrodes taped to the skin transmit signals to tiny motors that power the fingers.

They pick up the vibrations and transmit that information to our brains, which interpret it as sound.

It's a simple demonstration of how easy it is to transmit a virus when people don't cover their mouths when they sneeze.

New routers can transmit data faster and allow a dozen devices to be connected simultaneously.

Such human-whale interaction, she says, can transmit dangerous pathogens both ways between the two species.

The hundreds of thousands of chicks that are brought to the islands to feed humans transmit avian diseases to native birds.

Extreme directional specificity would be required to transmit a message to a single hostage surrounded by his captors.

New widely reported studies have failed to find that cellular phones, which use microwaves to transmit signals, cause cancer.

Technology and methods are channels to transmit a message.

They can consume whole fields of wheat and transmit avian, animal and human diseases.

Ricaurte shows that in monkeys and baboons ecstasy caused damage to the nerves that transmit dopamine.

Pressure surges bombard the sensitive nerve endings that normally transmit information about the body's position to the brain.

Of course, one does not transmit a culture by lecturing about.

Is our mission to transmit to our children the importance of drinking pure water and eating natural food without dyes.

They transmit accurately even when an aircraft is at the bottom of the sea.

They learn and leave, and often don't stay long enough to transmit their knowledge to the incoming members of the lab.

In that application they transmit data between devices such as.

The upright robot can transmit and receive audio and video and can be driven by remote control.

The feeling they transmit through their backpacks and freshly shampooed hair is the opposite.

As long as someone has a fever, they have the possibility to transmit infection.

It's easier to transmit than full video and can be used with instant messaging to convey emotion and nuance.

Transmit a second alarm and start relocating companies into the area.

It could record the person's exercise and transmit the results to a computer to be transferred to a central location.

The newest version can transmit photos directly to your smartphone:.

Domestic carrier pigeons have been used for centuries to transmit messages during wartime.

Hydroelectric power plants proliferated with the ability to transmit electricity over longer distances.

They may have also developed a way to store and transmit information in non verbal ways too.

It's a device with a microphone in it that can transmit all it hears even when you're not consciously making a call.

The idea is causing her great pain, and she wants to transmit some of that pain to.

These smart phones can transmit and receive data to parts of the world that would normally take weeks to reach.

The webcam will then transmit images of your face into the onscreen tableau so you appear as an.

These new technologies allow small implants to transmit one's data wireless on a particular network.

Microbe layers also alter the way that soil and rock transmit sound.

Another problem with fibrin glues is that many wrongly believe such blood products have the potential to transmit disease.

The tags can transmit in different frequencies that can be read from varying distances.

For example, the use of e-mail to transmit what might be regarded as secret information is expressly forbidden.

Once they interact with the external field, they change their charge and transmit the response in the opposite direction.

Once sick, miners could transmit it from person to person.

Mosquitoes transmit dozens of infections, but none is as complicated or as sinister as malaria.

If you want to transmit well the system driving the antenna should match that.

Bluetooth is a wireless networking system, primarily used to connect electronic devices that transmit small amounts of data.

From that distance, the power they would have to transmit would be enormous to reach us.

Some moments are so much a matter of atmosphere as to be almost impossible to transmit by factual summary.

Cattle transmit the disease more readily than sheep, making them more susceptible to the disease.

He recommended changing it to enable officers in the field to transmit incident information electronically into the system.

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World English Dictionary

transmit (trænzˈmɪt)

—vb , -mits, -mitting, -mitted
1.	(tr) to pass or cause to go from one place or person to another; transfer
2.	(tr) to pass on or impart (a disease, infection, etc)
3.	(tr) to hand down to posterity
4.	(tr; usually passive) to pass (an inheritable characteristic) from parent to offspring
5.	to allow the passage of (particles, energy, etc): radio waves are transmitted through the atmosphere
6.	a. to send out (signals) by means of radio waves or along a transmission line
	b. to broadcast (a radio or television programme)
7.	(tr) to transfer (a force, motion, power, etc) from one part of a mechanical system to another

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

trans'mittable

—*adj*

trans'mittible

—*adj*

trans'mittal

—n

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Word Origin & History

transmit

c.1400, from L. transmittere "send across, transfer, pass on," from trans- "across" + mittere "to send." Transmitter "apparatus for receiving radio signals" is first attested 1934.

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Medical Dictionary

transmit trans·mit (trāns-mĭt', trānz-)
v. trans·mit·ted, trans·mit·ting, trans·mits

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.

trans·mit'ta·ble adj.

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