Transmitter

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One that transmits: a transmitter of disease.
  • n. An electronic device that generates and amplifies a carrier wave, modulates it with a meaningful signal derived from speech or other sources, and radiates the resulting signal from an antenna.
  • n. The portion of a telephone that converts the incident sounds into electrical impulses that are conveyed to a remote receiver.
  • n. A telegraphic sending instrument.
  • n. A neurotransmitter.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. something that transmits something (in all senses).
  • n. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. See indicator, 1 .
  • n. One who or that which transmits.
  • n. Specifically— In telegraphy, the sending or despatching instrument, especially that under the automatic system, in which a paper strip with perforations representing the Morse or a similar alphabet is passed rapidly through an instrument called an automatic transmitter, in which contacts are made by metallic points wherever a perforation occurs, and are prevented where the paper is unpierced.
  • n. In telephony, the microphonic or other apparatus, together with the funnel for receiving the voice and converging the waves of sound upon the thin iron diaphragm. See telephone.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. someone who transmits a message
  • n. any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease
  • n. set used to broadcast radio or tv signals
  • Antonym
    receiver   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ritter    Sitter    aglitter    bitter    chitter    critter    embitter    emitter    fitter    fritter   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    receiver    detector    radio-    amplifier    antenna    transmission    generator    communicator    recorder    microphone