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transmit

UK/tɹænsˈmɪt/US/tɹænsˈmɪt/
verbB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #4,956 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: transmitted, transmitting, transmits

To transmit is to send something out or pass it on. Transmit a signal, transmit the disease, transmitted live.

In disease it is the exact word for passing an infection from one host to another, and cutting transmission is the aim of every control measure. In broadcasting it means sending a signal out. The Latin means to send across.

Definitions of transmit

  1. 1verbtransmitTo send something out or pass it on.B2

    “The radio station transmits news around the clock.”

transmit is a sending.

Where it comes from

Latin transmittere means to send across — trans plus mittere, to send. Mission and missile are relatives.

  1. Latin

    trānsmittō — transmit

  2. Middle English

    transmitten

  3. English, today

    transmit

From Middle English transmitten, borrowed from Latin trānsmittō (“transmit”) literally “across-send”.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

transmit in the wild

  • Flow control is important because it is possible for a sending computer to transmit information at a faster rate than the destination computer can receive and process it.

    Flow control (data)

  • CHU (Canada), HLA (South Korea), MSF (United Kingdom), and WWV (United States) transmit DUT1 with 0.1 s precision.

    DUT1

  • Systems that do not need duplex capability may instead use simplex communication, in which one device transmits and the others can only listen.

    Duplex (telecommunications)

  • Here, each computer listens to the network before attempting to transmit.

    Contention (telecommunications)

  • In carrier detection, computers continue to listen to the network as they transmit.

    Contention (telecommunications)

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the trānsmittō family

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