transmit Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb transfer to another
    communicate; convey.
    • communicate a disease
  2. verb transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
    impart; carry; convey; conduct; channel.
    • Sound carries well over water
    • The airwaves carry the sound
    • Many metals conduct heat
  3. verb broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television
    broadcast; beam; send; air.
    • We cannot air this X-rated song
  4. verb send from one person or place to another
    transfer; channelise; transport; channelize; channel.
    • transmit a message

WordNet

Trans*mit" transitive verb
Etymology
L. transmittere, transmissum; trans across, over + mittere to send: cf. F. transmettre. See Missile.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Transmitted; present participle & verbal noun Transmitting
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913