transmit
verb/tɹænsˈmɪt/ · /tɹænzˈmɪt/
Etymology From Middle English transmitten, borrowed from Latin trānsmittō (“transmit”, verb, literally “across-send”).
7 senses
- 1To send or convey from one person, place or thing to another.
- 2To spread or pass on (something such as a disease or a signal).
- 3To impart, convey or hand down by inheritance or heredity.
- 4To communicate (news or information, especially electronically).
- 5To convey or conduct (energy or force) through a…
- 6To send out (a signal, as opposed to receive).
- 7To go out; to be sent, conveyed, spread, passed on, or…
1
To send or convey from one person, place or thing to another.
2
To spread or pass on (something such as a disease or a signal).
3
To impart, convey or hand down by inheritance or heredity.
4
To communicate (news or information, especially electronically).
5
To convey or conduct (energy or force) through a mechanism or medium.
- The tractive and braking forces are transmitted to the body through a downward projecting pivot pin in the normal way.1960 December, “The first hundred 25 kV a.c. electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 728:
6
To send out (a signal, as opposed to receive).
- A Mayday call was transmitted by the stricken vessel.
7
To go out; to be sent, conveyed, spread, passed on, or communicated.
- The Mayday call transmitted successfully.
- Synonyms
- oversend
- Derived terms
- cotransmit, cross-transmit, mistransmit, neurotransmit, press-to-transmit, pretransmit, push-to-transmit, retransmit, teletransmit, transceive, transmitarray, transmittable, transmittal, transmitter, transmittible, TX, xenotransmit
- Related terms
- transmissible, transmission, transmittance, transmittant, mission