transmit

1 transfer to another; "communicate a disease" [syn: convey, communicate]

2 transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat" [syn: conduct, convey, carry, channel]

3 broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; "We cannot air this X-rated song" [syn: air, send, broadcast, beam]

4 send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message" [syn: transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise] [also: transmitting, transmitted]

English

Pronunciation

Etymology

From transmittere.

Verb

1. To send or convey something from one person, place or thing to another
2. To spread or pass on something such as a disease or a signal
3. To impart, convey or hand down something by inheritance or heredity
4. To communicate news or information
5. To convey energy or force through a mechanism
6. To send out a signal (as opposed to receive)

Related terms

• transmission
• transmittable
• transmittal
• transmittance
• transmittant
• transmitter

Translations

• Finnish: lähettää (1,2,4), levittää (2)
• French: transmettre (1,2,3,4,5), émettre (5)
• German: senden (1), übertragen (2), weiterleiten (3)
• Greek: μεταδίδω

French

Verb

1. Form of Third-person singular past historic, transmettre

Transmission is the act of passing something on.

Specifically, it may refer to:

• Transmission (mechanics), a gear system transmitting mechanical power, as in a car
• Transmission (telecommunications), the act of transmitting messages over distances
• Transmission (medicine), the passing of a disease
• Transmission (magazine), a literary magazine based in the UK
• Transmission coefficient, in physics, chemistry, and optics.
• Transmission (TV programme), a British music television programme shown in the UK.
• Electric power transmission, one process in the delivery of electricity to consumers
• Data transmission, the conveyance of information from one space to another
• Transmittance, in optics, the propagation of a light wave through a medium
• Dharma transmission, the formal confirmation of a student's awakening in Zen Buddhism
• Transmission (spiritual), the act of passing on wisdom or enlightenment from a spiritual master to a disciple
• Transmission (genetics), is the passing on of genetic information.
• Transmission (audio), an upcoming album from the Diesel Street Kings

Software

• Transmission (BitTorrent client), a BitTorrent Client for Mac OS X/Unix-like operating systems
• Transmit (FTP client), a Mac OS X file transfer application

Music

• Transmission (album), the fourth album by the Canadian band The Tea Party
• Transmissions (album), the first album by trance musicians Juno Reactor
• "Transmission" (song), a song by post-punk band Joy Division
• Transmission Communications, a record label
• Transmissions (Live at Woodstock) (1994) (Unofficial Enhanced CD and book set)
• Transmissions (live album) unofficial Red Hot Chili Peppers live release at Woodstock 1994
• Transmission (record label) a record label set by British rock band Porcupine Tree.

See also

• Transmissibility (disambiguation page)

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