## Meanings
1. To send out signals, messages, or information, especially by radio or electronic means.
2. To pass a disease from one person or animal to another.
3. To pass energy or force through a material or mechanism.

## Examples
- The station transmits its programmes across the whole country.
- Mosquitoes can transmit malaria to humans.
- Metal transmits heat very well.

## Synonyms
- oversend

## Derived Forms
- cross-transmit
- press-to-transmit
- push-to-transmit
- transmittable
- transmittal
- transmitter
- tx

## Related Forms
- mission
- transmissible
- transmission
- transmittance
- transmittant

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: transmitten
- Root: trānsmittō
- Affix: trans- - across

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

## AI Etymology
Transmit is from Middle English transmitten, borrowed from Latin trānsmittō (“transmit”, verb, literally “across-send”). The historical line also includes Middle English transmitten, Latin trānsmittō. In present-day use, it can mean to send out signals, messages, or information, especially by radio or electronic means, or to pass a disease from one person or animal to another. Derived formations include cross-transmit, press-to-transmit, push-to-transmit, transmittable, transmittal, transmitter, tx.

## Topics
- Verbs of Movement

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