transmit

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To send out signals, messages, or information, especially by radio or electronic means.

   Usage: For communication, transmit commonly takes signals, messages, or data as its object. Use to for the receiver and from for the sender.

   The sensors transmit temperature readings to the control room every minute.

   The station transmits its programmes across the whole country.

2. 2
   verb

   To pass a disease from one person or animal to another.

   Mosquitoes can transmit malaria to humans.

3. 3
   verb

   To pass energy or force through a material or mechanism.

   Metal transmits heat very well.

Simplified etymology

Transmit entered English in the late Middle Ages from a Latin compound of trans-, “across,” and mittere, “to send.” It shares its second element with admit, permit, and submit.

From Latin trānsmittō, to send across, combining trāns- with mittō, to send, whose infinitive is mittere.

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