Dictionary

transmit en · VERB

Pronunciation

• trănsmĭt'
• (US) audio
• /tɹænsˈmɪt/
• /tɹænzˈmɪt/
• trănzmĭt'

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (transitive) To send or convey from one person, place or thing to another.
2. (transitive) To spread or pass on (something such as a disease or a signal).
3. (transitive) To impart, convey or hand down by inheritance or heredity.
4. (intransitive, transitive) To communicate (news or information, especially electronically).
5. (transitive) 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. (intransitive, transitive) To send out (a signal, as opposed to receive).
   • A Mayday call was transmitted by the stricken vessel.
7. (intransitive) To go out; to be sent, conveyed, spread, passed on, or communicated.
   • The Mayday call transmitted successfully.

Forms

Deriveds

cotransmit · press-to-transmit · retransmit · transmitter · cross-transmit · push-to-transmit · transmittal · transmitarray · transmittable · teletransmit · TX · mistransmit · transceive · neurotransmit · pretransmit · xenotransmit · transmittible

Relateds

transmission · transmittant · transmissible · mission · transmittance

Synonyms

oversend · broadcast

Translations (61)

da transmittere (to spread or pass on, e.g. a disease or signal) · bg предавам (to communicate (news or information)) · bg съобщавам (to communicate (news or information)) · ca transmetre (to impart, convey or hand down by inheritance or heredity) · ro transmite (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another) · fi välittää (to convey (energy or force)) · ca transmetre (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another) · bg излъчвам (to send out a signal) · ga iompair (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another) · sv sända (to send out a signal) · grc παραδίδωμι (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another) · cs přenést (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another) · wa kissemer (to communicate (news or information)) · eo transmeti (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another) · fa تراگسیلیدن (to send out a signal) · nl doorgeven (to communicate (news or information)) · da sende (to spread or pass on, e.g. a disease or signal) · et edasi andma (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another) · bg предавам (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another) · ca transmetre (to spread or pass on, e.g. a disease or signal) · bg пренасям (to spread or pass on, e.g. a disease or signal) · bg предавам по наследство (to impart, convey or hand down by inheritance or heredity) · cs šířit (to spread or pass on, e.g. a disease or signal) · es transmitir (to send out a signal) · sd پارمُڪَڻُ (to convey (energy or force)) · fa تراگسیلیدن (to impart, convey or hand down by inheritance or heredity) · ca transmetre (to convey (energy or force)) · es transmitir (to impart, convey or hand down by inheritance or heredity) · fa تراگسیلیدن (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another) · nl doorgeven (to impart, convey or hand down by inheritance or heredity) · fi lähettää (to spread or pass on, e.g. a disease or signal) · fa تراگسیلیدن (to communicate (news or information)) · fi lähettää (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another) · cs vysílat (to send out a signal) · bg пренасям (to convey (energy or force)) · ro transmite (to communicate (news or information)) · de übermitteln (to communicate (news or information)) · ro transmite (to convey (energy or force)) · ca transmetre (to communicate (news or information)) · es transmitir (to convey (energy or force)) · da sende (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another) · sd پارمڪَڻُ (to send out a signal) · nl doorgeven (to spread or pass on, e.g. a disease or signal) · es transmitir (to communicate (news or information)) · el μεταδίδω (to send out a signal) · es transmitir (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another) · fi levittää (to spread or pass on, e.g. a disease or signal) · nl doorgeven (to convey (energy or force)) · fi lähettää (to send out a signal) · gl transmitir (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another) · nl doorgeven (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another) · fi välittää (to communicate (news or information)) · es transmitir (to spread or pass on, e.g. a disease or signal) · fi välittää (to impart, convey or hand down by inheritance or heredity) · nl uitzenden (to send out a signal) · fa تراگسیلیدن (to convey (energy or force)) · eo transdoni (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another) · fi siirtää (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another) · fa تراگسیلیدن (to spread or pass on, e.g. a disease or signal) · ca transmetre (to send out a signal) · el μεταδίδω (to spread or pass on, e.g. a disease or signal)