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.
The rigid market controls destroyed incentives and the ability of China's once-thriving markets to transmit information freely via prices.
The fluids do not transmit electricity and are extremely difficult to burn.
Under terms of the multiyear agreement, MCI will transmit all of United Airlines' internal voice traffic through MCI's Vnet private network service.
Correspondents from Spanish and West German television said state-owned television and telephone companies refused to transmit images of the violence overseas.
Like Michael J. Fox, Bruce Willis and other TV stars, Johnson was flooded with offers from film producers seeking to transmit his Sonny Crockett allure to theatrical attractions.
U.S. District Judge Harold Greene earlier this year modified the AT&T consent decree to allow the Bell companies to transmit information services, but he refused to permit them to originate the information themselves.
Zenith says there are enough empty channels to allow 99.7 percent of all U.S. broadcasters to transmit HDTV signals.
Part of the problem is infrastructure: Conventional telephone lines don't have the capacity to transmit moving pictures, meaning that exotic means such as satellites or special lines must be used.
"It's a political deal," NAB lobbyist James May said of the committee's action on the proposal to transmit American news and entertainment programs to Cuba from a blimp over the Florida Keys.
One fanciful tabloid has even engineered a kiss and tell on the cheap, hiring a medium to transmit the amorous confessions of a sultry, though deceased, British actress.
Lower costs could underline the case for sending data over mobile radio and not over mobile data networks, Mr Barrett says. He notes that some mobile radio networks offer lower tariffs for users wanting to transmit data.
The PCN system will rely on refrigerator-sized, low-power transmitters that will transmit across a more limited area.
'The plant is also quite discriminating and doesn't transmit any contaminants to the edible portion,' says Aitken. The prospect of more sludge being recycled free of charge on fields is likely to worry fertiliser manufacturers.
The station is to transmit VOA broadcasts to Eastern Europe and Africa.
He said scientists are equipped to gauge the strength of eruptions and transmit information to the Federal Aviation Administration and other agencies.
In 1987, Greene gave the regional Bell companies permission to transmit but not originate information services, which, besides electronic publishing, also include data processing and related computer services.
A 3-year-old born deaf is learning to use an electronic device implanted in his ear to transmit sound and help him hear.
It also will serve as an orbital switchboard for up to 24 satellites, including some that will transmit coded military information.
Some, equipped with mobile radio communications, are already being used to collect data outside the office and transmit it back to headquarters - exemplifying the increasing integration of telecommunications and computing.
The company will have to build 400 base station sites to transmit calls and data.
In addition, there will be users who transmit data but, as this will be over a normal voice channel to or from a laptop PC it will be impossible to quantify these numbers.
The device is powered by nine solar cells and will transmit an infrared signal that can be picked up by a ground station up to a mile away.
With that has come a proliferation of direct marketing groups using facsimile machines, tying up already overused fax machines and limiting companies' ability to transmit urgent documents.
Before Judge Greene's July 25 decision, he had allowed the Bell companies to transmit services over the phone lines, but not to own the content of the information.
In fact the reverse may be true, because rotting food sometimes inhibits the growth of germs that transmit diarrhoea.
The Los Angeles County district attorney's office filed attempted murder charges against a man who allegedly sold his AIDS-infected blood, raising questions about how to prosecute victims of the disease who knowingly transmit the virus.
A single fiber strand can transmit 16,000 phone conversations at once, compared with 24 for the 100-year-old copper wire technology.
For two years, Ernst Fredrik Werner Alexanderson, a consulting engineer for GE and the Radio Corporation of America, had been tinkering with a machine that used perforated spinning disks to transmit pictures.
Checkfree won't make a payment less than four business days from the date on which you transmit the order.
A panel appointed by the Federal Communications Commission recommended that the agency substantially increase the radio frequencies for local broadcasters so they can transmit advanced television signals.