Transmitted

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /tɹænsˈmɪtɪd/

Definitions

1. To have conveyed or passed information or energy through a medium from one entity to another
2. To facilitate the delivery of signals or messages through a specific channel for communication purposes
3. Carried or sent from a source to a receiver ; inherited or spread through biological means or hereditary factors

Etymology: "Transmitted" is the past tense and past participle of "transmit," so its history is that of the verb itself. The verb came into Middle English from Latin "trānsmittere," built from "trāns" ("across") and "mittere" ("to send"), so the literal sense is something like "send across." The Latin "mittere" also gave English "mission," "missile," and "message," all of which share that core idea of sending something off to a destination. Early uses kept that physical sense of moving something from one place or person to another, whether goods, letters, or people. Over the centuries the same picture stretched to cover abstract things, like knowledge, diseases, and traits, passed from one generation or carrier to the next. The later technical sense, sending signals by wire or radio, extends the old idea of sending across distance into the electrical age.

Synonyms: communicated, conveyed, sent, dispatched, broadcasted

Antonyms: received, held