transmit

English Online Dictionary. What means transmit‎? What does transmit mean?

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: trănsmĭt', trănzmĭt' IPA^(key): /tɹænsˈmɪt/, /tɹænzˈmɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪt
• Hyphenation: trans‧mit

Verb

transmit (third-person singular simple present transmits, present participle transmitting, simple past and past participle transmitted)

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. (transitive, intransitive) To communicate (news or information, especially electronically).

   Synonym: broadcast

5. (transitive) To convey or conduct (energy or force) through a mechanism or medium.
6. (transitive, intransitive) To send out (a signal, as opposed to receive).

7. (intransitive) To go out; to be sent, conveyed, spread, passed on, or communicated.

Synonyms

• oversend

Derived terms

Related terms

• transmissible
• transmission
• transmittance
• transmittant
• mission

Translations

Anagrams

• tantrism

French

Pronunciation

Verb

transmit

1. third-person singular past historic of transmettre

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tranˈsmit]

Verb

transmit

1. inflection of transmite:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative