2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Transmit \Trans*mit"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Transmitted}; p. pr
& vb n. {Transmitting}.] [L. transmittere, transmissum
trans across over + mittere to send: cf F. transmettre See
{Missile}.]
1. To cause to pass over or through to communicate by
sending; to send from one person or place to another; to
pass on or down as by inheritance; as to transmit a
memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money, or
bills of exchange, from one country to another.
The ancientest fathers must be next removed, as
Clement of Alexandria, and that Eusebian book of
evangelic preparation, transmitting our ears through
a hoard of heathenish obscenities to receive the
gospel. --Milton.
The scepter of that kingdom continued to be
transmitted in the dynasty of Castile. --Prescott.
2. To suffer to pass through as glass transmits light;
metals transmit, or conduct, electricity.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
transmitted
adj 1: sent electronically as by wire or radio; "the transmitted
signals"
2: tending to occur among members of a family usually by
heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits";
"genetically transmitted features" [syn: {familial}, {genetic},
{hereditary}, {inherited}, {transmissible}]
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