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transmit.

To send or convey from one person, place or thing to another.

8 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/tɹænsˈmɪt//tɹænzˈmɪt/
  1. To send or convey from one person, place or thing to another.

    transitive
  2. To spread or pass on (something such as a disease or a signal).

    transitive
  3. To impart, convey or hand down by inheritance or heredity.

    transitive
  4. To communicate (news or information, especially electronically).

    intransitive · transitive
  5. To convey or conduct (energy or force) through a mechanism or medium.

    transitive
  6. To send out (a signal, as opposed to receive).

    intransitive · transitive
    A Mayday call was transmitted by the stricken vessel.
  7. To go out; to be sent, conveyed, spread, passed on, or communicated.

    intransitive
    The Mayday call transmitted successfully.
Where this word comes from

From Middle English transmitten, borrowed from Latin trānsmittō (“transmit”, verb, literally “across-send”).

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