0 to broadcast something, or to send out or carry signals or messages using radio, television, etc.:
Radio Seven transmits on 201 medium wave (= uses those particular radio waves to broadcast on).
The information is transmitted electronically to the central computer.
Department stores use EDI to transmit orders to suppliers.
Sound is transmitted from the eardrum to the sound-sensitive cells in the ear by means of a bridge of three tiny bones.
1 to pass a disease from one person or animal to another:
COVID-19 is transmitted through droplets of saliva or discharge from the nose when an infected person coughs or sneezes.
Some diseases are transmitted from one generation to the next.
Other diseases, such as hepatitis, can be transmitted by blood.
Somehow your panic and fear transmits itself to the horse that you're riding.
That tension and sense of antipication will inevitably be transmitted to the team.
2 to send or give something:
3 to send out electrical signals using a radio, television, or computer network:
transmit data/information Bluetooth chips allow mobile phone users to transmit data over short distances to other mobile phones.
transmit a signal/code/message Voice over Internet Protocol transmits messages in small data packets.
be transmitted to sb/sth The company's in-house television station is transmitted to handheld devices owned by its employees.
be transmitted digitally/electronically Orders may be transmitted electronically from or to the Floor of the Exchange.
5 to broadcast a programme on television, radio, or the internet:
The BBC didn't transmit the documentary again, due to its controversial content.
6 to cause or spread a disease so that a person or group of people is infected:
7 to communicate information, knowledge, beliefs, etc. to others:
Training appears to be an effective way to transmit information about diversity and its importance
The company uses the system of professional mentorship in order to transmit family values.
Instructions were transmitted to the pilots through their headphones.
The programmes were being transmitted from illegal radio stations.
His broadcasts were transmitted late at night.
In some call centres, operators use four computer screens to gather and transmit information to police or fire/rescue units.
RFID tags are tiny devices that transmit information about the objects on which they reside.
Cholera is transmitted through contaminated water.
Some types of the anopheles mosquito transmit malaria to humans.
He transmits that joyous feeling right through the TV screen.
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