Definition of Transmitter

1. Noun. Someone who transmits a message. "Return to sender"

Exact synonyms: Sender
Generic synonyms: Communicator
Specialized synonyms: Spammer
Derivative terms: Send, Send, Transmit

2. Noun. Any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease. "When medical scientists talk about vectors they are usually talking about insects"
Exact synonyms: Vector
Category relationships: Animal, Animate Being, Beast, Brute, Creature, Fauna, Micro-organism, Microorganism
Generic synonyms: Agent
Specialized synonyms: Gene Delivery Vector, Transducing Vector, Carrier, Immune Carrier
Derivative terms: Transmit

3. Noun. Set used to broadcast radio or tv signals.
Exact synonyms: Sender
Terms within: Aerial, Antenna, Transmitting Aerial
Specialized synonyms: Jammer, Radio Transmitter, Satellite Transmitter, Television Transmitter
Generic synonyms: Set
Derivative terms: Send, Transmit

Definition of Transmitter

1. n. One who, or that which, transmits; specifically, that portion of a telegraphic or telephonic instrument by means of which a message is sent; -- opposed to receiver.

Definition of Transmitter

1. Noun. something that transmits something (in all senses). ¹

2. Noun. an electronic device that generates and amplifies a carrier wave, modulates it with a meaningful signal derived from speech, music, TV or other sources, and broadcasts the resulting signal from an antenna. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Transmitter

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Transmitter

1. One who, or that which, transmits; specifically, that portion of a telegraphic or telephonic instrument by means of which a message is sent; opposed to receiver. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Transmitter

transmissivities
transmissivity
transmissometer
transmissometers
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transmittal
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transmittance
transmittances
transmittant
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transmitter
transmitters
transmittible
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transmitting aerial
transmogrification
transmogrifications
transmogrified
transmogrifies
transmogrify
transmogrifying
transmon
transmons
transmontane
transmountain

Literary usage of Transmitter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Except for very short lines, this type of transmitter was not sufficiently . ful. The solution of the vitally important i lem of improving this pan of the ..."

2. American Telephone Practice by Kempster Blanchard Miller (1905)
"flowing in the primary winding of the induction coil produces a field of force in the surrounding space, and any changes caused by the transmitter in the ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"In later forms of the Berliner transmitter, carbon contacts were employed ... Cross-section of Edison Carbon Transmitter. Later type. bearing against a hard ..."

4. Experimental Electrical Engineering and Manual for Electrical Testing for by Vladimir Karapetoff (1922)
"Permanent-magnet transmitter. Early telephone transmitters were of the ... Any regular telephone receiver acts as a magneto transmitter if one speaks ..."

5. The Electrician (1883)
"THE REIS Transmitter. THE world has an interest in knowing what relation Philipp Reis, ... It consisted of two parts, a transmitter and a receiver. ..."

6. Molecular Neurobiology: Proceedings of the 2nd NIMH Conference by Steven Zalcman (1995)
"This suggests a lack of Ca^-permeability of the postsynaptic channels activated by the excitatory transmitter, however, needs further detailed investigation ..."

7. Wireless Telegraphy by Jonathan Adolf Wilhelm Zenneck (1915)
"Circuit Connections of the Poulsen Transmitter.—a. Coupled Poulsen Transmitter.—In the first period following the discovery of POULSEN, the same method of ..."

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