transmit

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

• enPR: trănsmĭt', trănzmĭt' IPA^(key): /tɹænsˈmɪt/, /tɹænzˈmɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪt
• Hyphenation: trans‧mit

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.
   • 1960 December, “The first hundred 25 kV a.c. electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 728:

     The tractive and braking forces are transmitted to the body through a downward projecting pivot pin in the normal way.

6. (transitive, intransitive) 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.

• oversend

• transmissible
• transmission
• transmittance
• transmittant
• mission

• tantrism

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transmit

1. third-person singular past historic of transmettre

• IPA^(key): [tranˈsmit]

transmit

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