transmiss

/tɹænzˈmɪs/

transmiss noun: a (version of a) bill or other document sent or transmitted to a council, court, or other body; a transmission.

Noun

transmiss (plural transmisses)

(formal) A (version of a) bill or other document sent or transmitted to a council, court, or other body; a transmission.
- ... was presented to the House and read the first Time, and ordered to be read a second Time to-morrow Morning. Ordered, that a Committee be appointed to compare the Transmisses of the said Bills, with the Heads of the said Bills sent ...1782, Ireland. Parliament. House of Commons, Journals of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Ireland, page 261
- Prerogative, when any party shall require a transmiss to be made out for the Court of Appeal, ...1832, Great Britain Parliament House of Commons, “COURTS OF JUSTICE, IRELAND. SUGGESTIONS AND REGULATIONS”, in Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons, volume 35, page 32

transmiss (third-person singular simple present transmisses, present participle transmissing, simple past and past participle transmissed)

(formal) To transmit.
- Treaties transmissed by the President to the Senate for ratification […]1890, United States. Congress House, ...Constitution of the United States: Jefferson's Manual, the Rules of the House of Representatives...and a Digest and Manual of the Rules and Practice of the...
- A data processor 10 makes data communication with other data processor via a loop line with a transmissing receiving circuit 39.1984, Patents Abstracts of Japan: Unexamined Applications

Transmisses were the Bills sent by the King in Council to the Council Board in Ireland, as having the King's sanction to be debated and passed by the Parliament in Ireland.1920, Robert Henry Murray, Ireland, 1494-1603, page 3:
They are in court-hand, like transmisses; but they have no writs & the membranes are connected, not at bottom, like transmisses, but at the side.1941, Irish Manuscripts Commission, Analecta Hibernica, page 162:
This document, known as a transmiss, was sent to the Irish council, and further transmisses, containing additional legislation, might be sent during the lifetime of the parliament.2002, Henry Fitz-Patrick Berry, James Morrissey, Statute Rolls of the Parliament of Ireland ...: Richard III - Henry VIII, Ireland:
THE MODEL OF THE MEMBRANE SENSOR AS A DELAY LINE There is a possibility of modelling of the transmissing loss line in the SPICE programme.1998, Optoelectronic and Electronic Sensors, Society of Photo Optical

Noun
plural	transmisses
Verb
third-person singular present	transmisses
present participle	transmissing
past participle	transmissed
past	transmissed

From Latin trānsmissus, past participle of Latin trānsmittere.

What does transmiss mean?: Transmiss means a (version of a) bill or other document sent or transmitted to a council, court, or other body; a transmission.
How do you use transmiss in a sentence?: Transmisses were the Bills sent by the King in Council to the Council Board in Ireland, as having the King's sanction to be debated and passed by the Parliament in Ireland.
What part of speech is transmiss?: Transmiss can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce transmiss?: Transmiss is pronounced /tɹænzˈmɪs/.
What is the plural of transmiss?: The plural of transmiss is transmisses.

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