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transmittable

[trans-mit, tranz-]

Origin

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).

COLLAPSE

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 printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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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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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.

American Heritage

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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