Retransmitted

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To have been sent through a medium once more following a previous communication To have had information delivered again after an initial process To have undergone an additional transmission of data subsequent to the first sending
2. Delivered again over a communication system after an initial broadcast
3. Passed on once more across transmission methods following a first sending

Etymology: "Retransmitted" is the past tense and past participle of "retransmit", a verb built from the prefix "re-" meaning "again" or "back" and "transmit", which means to send something across a distance. The two parts come from different routes into English. "Transmit" was borrowed from Latin "transmittere", meaning "to send across", formed from "trans-" (across) and "mittere" (to send), and it reached English in the late Middle Ages. The prefix "re-" comes from Latin "re-", which entered English through Old French and gave English a large family of words meaning "do again" or "send back". The result is a verb whose logic is entirely transparent: it sends a message across a distance a second time. Its meaning is clearest when read literally as "sent across again", which is exactly what happens when a broadcast signal is picked up and passed on by another station.

Synonyms: broadcast again, recast, recasted, replayed, reshown

Antonyms: originally transmitted