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Transmitter   /trænsmˈɪtər/   Listen
Transmitter

noun
1.
Someone who transmits a message.  Synonym: sender.
2.
Any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease.  Synonym: vector.  "Fleas are vectors of the plague" , "Aphids are transmitters of plant diseases" , "When medical scientists talk about vectors they are usually talking about insects"
3.
Set used to broadcast radio or tv signals.  Synonym: sender.



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"Transmitter" Quotes from Famous Books



... 【第三 】子曰、德之不脩、學之不講、聞義不能徒、不善不能改、 CHAP. I. The Master said, 'A transmitter and not a maker, believing in and loving the ancients, I venture to compare myself with our old P'ang.' CHAP. II. The Master said, 'The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied:— which one of these things belongs to me?' ...
— The Chinese Classics--Volume 1: Confucian Analects • James Legge

... descended in the elevator, he realized that he had no claim whatever upon Robert Wade's friendship. "He has not betrayed me," murmured the now defiant cashier. "He is only the human 'transmitter' in Hugh Worthington's ...
— The Midnight Passenger • Richard Henry Savage

... receiver there is a similar toothed wheel carrying the hand of the indicating instrument, and actuated at the same moment as the transmitter. The primary contacts are so arranged that the contact is made for each degree of temperature to be indicated. This series of operations leaves the instruments closed and the pawls home in the toothed wheel. To ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 • Various

... vehicles used for this observation and for interplanetary transport by the explorers have been classed as follows: Type I, a small, nonpilot-carrying disk-shaped craft equipped with some form of television or impulse transmitter; Type II, a very large, metallic, disk-shaped aircraft operating on the helicopter principle; Type III, a dirigible-shaped, wingless aircraft that, in the Earth's atmosphere, operates in conformance with ...
— The Flying Saucers are Real • Donald Keyhoe

... the young inventor into the transmitter, and as he received an answer a look of pleasure ...
— Tom Swift and his Air Scout - or, Uncle Sam's Mastery of the Sky • Victor Appleton


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