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transmitting

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trans·mit  (trns-mt, trnz-)
v. trans·mit·ted, trans·mit·ting, trans·mits
v.tr.
1. To send from one person, thing, or place to another; convey. See Synonyms at convey, send1.
2. To cause to spread; pass on: transmit an infection.
3. To impart or convey to others by heredity or inheritance; hand down.
4. To pass along (news or information); communicate.
5.
a. Electronics To send (a signal), as by wire or radio.
b. Physics To cause (a disturbance) to propagate through a medium.
6. To convey (force or energy) from one part of a mechanism to another.
v.intr.
To send out a signal.

[Middle English transmitten, from Latin trnsmittere : trns-, trans- + mittere, to send.]

trans·mitta·ble adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.transmittingtransmitting - the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted
sending - the act of causing something to go (especially messages)
forwarding - the act of sending on to another destination; "the forwarding of mail to a new address is done automatically"; "the forwarding of resumes to the personnel department"
mailing, posting - the transmission of a letter; "the postmark indicates the time of mailing"
telephotography - transmission and reproduction of photographs and charts and pictures over a distance


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It is remarkable, however, that she neither insisted on Catherine's writing by every post, nor exacted her promise of transmitting the character of every new acquaintance, nor a detail of every interesting conversation that Bath might produce.
This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.
Casaubon had been slow and hesitating, oppressed in the plan of transmitting his work, as he had been in executing it, by the sense of moving heavily in a dim and clogging medium: distrust of Dorothea's competence to arrange what he had prepared was subdued only by distrust of any other redactor.
 
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