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Definition: Transmitter |
TransmitterNoun1. Someone who transmits a message; "return to sender". 2. Any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease; "mosquitos are vectors of malaria and yellow fever"; "fleas are vectors of the plague"; "aphids are transmitters of plant diseases". 3. Set used to broadcast radio or tv signals. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "transmitter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Post & Telecom | A microphone, which under the impact of sound waves, causes variations in a current. Source: European Union. (references) |
Aerospace | A device used for the generation of signals of any type and form which are to be transmitted. See receiver. In radio and radar, it is that portion of the equipment which includes electronic circuits designed to generate, amplify, and shape the radiofrequency energy which is delivered to the antenna where it is radiated out into space. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | An apparatus producing radio frequency energy for the purpose of radio communication. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | A chemical substance which effects the passage of nerve impulses from one cell to the other at the synapse. (references) |
Information | An apparatus or organ which produces for transmission signals representig messages from a message source. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | A measuring unit including a detecting element and an amplifier or signal converter which modifies the output signal into a specified one. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | A chemical substance which. . . effects the passage of nerve impulses from one cell to the other at the synapse. Source: European Union. (references) |
Military & Defense | Any circuit or device designed to send electrically encoded data to another location. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | For the purpose of TBR3:interface signal transmitter of IUT or simulator. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Equipment used to convert the sound signals into modulated radio frequency signals and to amplify and broadcast them later. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A transmitter is an electronic device which with the aid of an antenna propagates an electromagnetic signal such as radio, television, telecommunications, etc.A transmitter usually has a power supply, an oscillator, a modulator and audio, IF (intermediate frequency) and RF (radio frequency) amplifiers. Sometimes a device, for example, a cell phone contains both a transmitter and a radio receiver or transceiver. The modulator is the device which piggybacks (or modulates) the signal information onto the carrier radio frequency which is broadcast.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Transmitter."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| TR | English | Transmitter | Electrical Engineering |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: TransmitterSynonyms: sender (n), vector (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Transmitter |
| English words defined with "transmitter": call ♦ jammer ♦ lead-in ♦ pulsate, pulse ♦ radio beacon, radio transmitter ♦ satellite transmitter, skip distance, spark transmitter ♦ television transmitter ♦ walkie-talkie, walky-talky, Wireless telephony. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "transmitter": disturbing transmitter ♦ ENGINEER-IN-CHARGE, TRANSMITTER ♦ high-power transmitter, high-powered transmitter ♦ interfering transmitter ♦ rebroadcasting transmitter ♦ spurious transmitter output, synchronised transmitter, synchronized transmitter ♦ tape transmitter, transmitter engineer, TRANSMITTER OPERATOR ♦ unwanted transmitter. (references) |
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Screenplays | In other news, an accident caused the Quahog cable television transmitter to be knocked out, which will prevent broadcasting to the entire city (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) It's a transmitter, a radio for speaking to God. (Raiders of the Lost Ark; writing credit: George Lucas; Philip Kaufman) I wonder if they'll ever find that transmitter you slipped in G'kar's drink (Babylon 5: The Gathering; writing credit: J. Michael Straczynski) But I took it out of the radio transmitter, and only I know where to put it back (NewsRadio; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Set-up of the GOES tide gauge transmitter. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Junior Survey Tech Lillian Stuart works on GOES tide gauge transmitter. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Frank attaching radio transmitter while Joanne holds the baby Northern Spotted Owl. Credit: Carol Kauder. |  | A radio transmitter placed on an owl. Credit: Carol Kauder. |
 | Caption: Edison Carbon Transmitter and Chalk Receiver, Restored and on Display at Reconstructed Menlo Park Laboratory in Dearborn, Michigan; Dearborn, MI; March 29, 1940; {34.000/14} (jpg). |  | [Miniature transmitter used to monitor heartbeats] / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Spooner.. |
 | CH-46A helicopter from USS Sylvania (AFS-2) lifts a new Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN) radome into position atop Boston's foremast, during replacement of the cruiser's lightning-damaged TACAN transmitter and radome in the Mediterranean Sea. The photograph accompanies a USS Boston press release dated 26 February 1966. The damage was received in the northern Aegean Sea in January 1966. Due to non-availability of suitable cranes in the area, and the ship's operating schedule, the helicopter was used to remove the original transmitter and install its replacements. Pilots were Lieutenant Commander R.W. Russell and Lieutenant (Junior Grade) T.H. Hoivik. Controller was Lieutenant B.E. Allen, working on the mast platform assisted by Electronics Technicians 3rd Class Ken Lohrey and Jim Ramey. Credit: NAVY. |  | At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 10 August 1942. Circles and associated text mark recent alterations to the submarine. Note: Target bearing transmitter on the after bridge deck; antennas for SDa radar (mounted atop the after mast on the periscope shears) and SJ radar (in front of the shears). Credit: NAVY. |
 | Automatic transmitter type 703-A. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Cockpit of Amelia Earhart's plane showing the transmitter key from which she transmitted an urgent SOS. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The headpiece includes a microphone and a transmitter. (references) | |
In the Western Hemisphere, the Aedes aegypti mosquito is the most important transmitter or vector of dengue viruses, although a 2001 outbreak in Hawaii was transmitted by Aedes albopictus. (references) | ||
Peripheral nerve stimulation uses electrodes placed surgically on a carefully selected area of the body. The patient is then able to deliver an electrical current as needed to the affected area, using an antenna and transmitter. (references) | ||
Business | According to local industry sources, one large Korean company has developed a digital transmitter for experimental digital broadcasts, but the firm manufactures only the modulator and procures most of the core components from Japan. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Zambia | On August 19, the Government shut down Radio Phoenix for failure to renew a transmitter license. (references) |
Congo | Radio Maendeleo in Bukavu, South Kivu Province, resumed broadcasts on January 1; in 1999 RCD/Goma security forces in Bukavu had seized the radio transmitter and other equipment from the private radio station, effectively taking it off the air. (references) | |
Russia | In March Nizhniy Novgorod's regional head administrator Sergey Vasin enlisted the aid of local police to turn off the local television transmitter, because he claimed that he had been denied legally mandated access to airwaves during his campaign. (references) | |
Economic History | Romania | Developing and modernizing the FM-CCIR transmitter network (87.5-108 MHz). (references) |
Morocco | The $225-million International Board of Broadcaster's (IBB) transmitter in Morocco is one of the world's largest IBB transmitters. (references) | |
Sao Tome and Principe | In 1992, the Voice of America and the Government of Sao Tome signed a long-term agreement for the establishment of a relay transmitter station in Sao Tome; VOA currently broadcasts to much of Africa from this facility. (references) | |
Human Rights | Argentina | A policeman, Aldo Cabral, was believed to have provided the transmitter the robbers used during the bank robbery; three others, Ramon Leiva, Oscar Parodi, and Carlos Aravena, reportedly fired the shots that killed the hostages and suspect. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Transmitter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.15% of the time. "Transmitter" is used about 271 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.15% | 266 | 18,071 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.74% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.74% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.37% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 271 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "transmitter": amateur transmitter ♦ beacon transmitter ♦ beam transmitter ♦ Carbon transmitter ♦ directional transmitter ♦ disturbing transmitter ♦ emergency transmitter ♦ emissions due to transmitter transients ♦ fast transmitter ♦ glide path transmitter ♦ IAS transmitter ♦ indicated air speed transmitter ♦ interfering transmitter ♦ jamming transmitter ♦ radio receiver and transmitter ♦ radio transmitter ♦ rapid transmitter ♦ rebroadcasting transmitter ♦ satellite transmitter ♦ spark transmitter ♦ synchronised transmitter ♦ synchronized transmitter ♦ tape transmitter ♦ television transmitter ♦ transmitter blocker cell ♦ transmitter mast ♦ transmitter noise ♦ transmitter substance ♦ transmitter unit ♦ unwanted transmitter ♦ visual transmitter. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "transmitter": transmitter-blocker, transmitter-cum-microphone-cum-hologram, transmitter-distributor, transmitter-receiver, transmitter-receptor. | |
Ending with "transmitter": ball-cum-transmitter, collar-transmitter, micro-transmitter, radio-transmitter, receiver-transmitter, tv-transmitter. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "transmitter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | transmetues (broadcaster), dhënës (contributor, giver, transducer, transferor). (various references) | |
Arabic | مرسل (consignor, despatcher, dispatcher, send, sender), جهاز إرسال التلفون, المرسلة جهاز إرسال. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | микрофон (microphone), предавател (sender). (various references) | |
Chinese | 發送器 , 发射机. (various references) | |
Czech | vysílaè (broadcaster, transceiver), odesílatel (consigner, dispatcher, sender). (various references) | |
Danish | Tx (transmit, Tx), transmittersubstans (mediator, transmitter substance), transmitterstof (mediator, transmitter substance), transmitter (talker, transmitter substance), sende-udstyr, sender (communicator, emitter, radio transmitter, sender, Tx), sende-enhed, radiosender (radio transmitter), maaleomformer. (various references) | |
Dutch | Tx (transmit, Tx), zendereenheid (transmitter unit), zender (sender), radiozender (radio transmitter), interfacesignaal-zender (Tx). (various references) | |
Esperanto | FM-dissendilo (FM transmitter). (various references) | |
Farsi | فرستنده (Sender), فرافرست , منتقل کننده , انتقال دهنده . (various references) | |
Finnish | lähetin (sender). (various references) | |
French | transmetteur (transmitter substance), émetteur (radio transmitter). (various references) | |
German | Sender (broadcast station, channel, emitter, station, transmitters), Zeichengeber (sender, teleseme), Mikrophon (microphone, Mike). (various references) | |
Greek | ραδιοεκπομπός (radio transmitter), μηχανισμός μετάδοσης (drive, gear, gearing, transmission, transmission agent, transmission system), μεταβιβαστήσ (transferrer), μεταδότησ, μεταδότης (propagator), πομπόσ (pompon, powder puff, sender), πομπός (emitter, emitting device, sender), εκπομπός (emitter, sender), ενθέμιο συσκευής πομπού (transmitter unit), διαβιβαστήσ (forwarder). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מש"ר, מעביר (carrier, conductor, conveyer, transferor), ש"ר (broadcaster). (various references) | |
Hungarian | átadó (transmitting), terjesztő (propagator, spreader), telefonkagyló (handset, receiver), távíró-adókészülék, adóállomás (broadcasting station, transmitting station, x-mitter), adó (cess, contribution, dues, duty, impost, tax, transmitting, tribute). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pemancar (fountain, radiator). (various references) | |
Italian | trasmettitore (emitter). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 送話器 (mouthpiece), 送信機 , 発信側 (sender), トランスフォー 断層 (playing cards, transform fault, transformation, translate, translation, translator, transmission, transparency, transponder, transport, transportation, transposon), 伝導" (conductor). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | トランスミッター , そうし"き, そうわき (mouthpiece), で"どうたい (conductor), はっし"がわ (sender). (various references) | |
Korean | 송기. (various references) | |
Manx | toyrtagh (bounteous, dative, giver), tarchuirreyder. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ansmittertray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | transmissor (carrier, communicator). (various references) | |
Romanian | transmiţãtor (broadcaster, transmitting), traductor, radioemiţãtor, post de emisiune, microfon (microphone), agent transmiţãtor de microbi. (various references) | |
Russian | передатчик (broadcaster, sender, talker). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | transmiter, otpremnik (expediter, sender, shipper), odašiljač. (various references) | |
Spanish | transmisor (sender), emisor (emitter, issuing, issuing company). (various references) | |
Swedish | transmitter, vidarebefordrare, sändare (transmittor). (various references) | |
Turkish | verici (donor, giver, transmitting), nakledici (conveyer, conveyor), ahize (handset, receiver, receiving set). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | радіопередавач, той, хто повідомля", мікрофон (microphone). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người truyền. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "transmitter": transmitters. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "transmitter": neurotransmitter. (additional references) | |
Words containing "transmitter": neurotransmitters. (additional references) | |
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"Transmitter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: transmiter, transmittor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "transmitter" (pronounced transmi"ter) |
| 3 | -i" t er | embitter, aglitter, bitter, critter, fitter, fritter, glitter, hitter, knitter, litter, quitter, Ritter, sitar, sitter, titter. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-m-n-r-r-s-t-t-t" | |
-1 letter: retransmit. | |
-2 letters: martinets, restraint, retirants. | |
-3 letters: intreats, mariners, martinet, minarets, mistreat, nattiest, nitrates, raiments, rattiest, restrain, retirant, retrains, strainer, straiten, straiter, tarriest, teratism, terrains, tertians, titrants, titrates, trainers, transmit, tristate. | |
-4 letters: anestri, antsier, armrest, artiest, artiste, artsier, attires, attrite, errants, etamins, etatism, etatist, imarets, inmates, instate, intreat, iratest, iterant, maestri, mariner, marines, marries, martens. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-m-n-r-r-s-t-t-t" | |
+1 letter: transmitters. | |
+2 letters: retransmitted. | |
+3 letters: retransmitting. | |
+5 letters: neurotransmitter. | |
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