transmit

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

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

   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.

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

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