transmit
/tɹænsˈmɪt/ · verb
Meaning
- To send or convey from one person, place or thing to another.
- To spread or pass on (something such as a disease or a signal).
- To impart, convey or hand down by inheritance or heredity.
- To communicate (news or information, especially electronically).
- To convey or conduct (energy or force) through a mechanism or medium.
- To send out (a signal, as opposed to receive).
- To go out; to be sent, conveyed, spread, passed on, or communicated.
Etymology / origin
From Middle English transmitten, borrowed from Latin trānsmittō (“transmit”, verb, literally “across-send”).
- trānsmittō(la)→
- transmitten(enm)→
- transmit (English)
- Relations: inh, der
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