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pretransmit

pretransmit verb: to transmit in advance.

Verb

pretransmit (third-person singular simple present pretransmits, present participle pretransmitting, simple past and past participle pretransmitted)

  1. (transitive) To transmit in advance.
    • To estimate the channel distortion […] we need to pretransmit the training sequence.2010, Ivan Djordjevic, William Ryan, Bane Vasic, Coding for Optical Channels, page 228

Forms of pretransmit

third-person singular presentpretransmits
present participlepretransmitting
past participlepretransmitted
pastpretransmitted

Origin of pretransmit

From pre- + transmit.

Words that rhyme with pretransmit

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about pretransmit

What does pretransmit mean?
Pretransmit means to transmit in advance.
What part of speech is pretransmit?
Pretransmit is a verb.
What is the past tense of pretransmit?
The past tense of pretransmit is pretransmitted.

Words near pretransmit in the dictionary

  1. pretranslocated
  2. pretranslocation
  3. pretranslocational
  4. pretranslocations
  5. pretransmission
  6. pretransmit
  7. pretransmits
  8. pretransmitted
  9. pretransmitting
  10. pretransplant
  11. pretransplantation

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