transmitter
transmitter noun: one who or that which transmits something (in all senses).
Noun
transmitter (plural transmitters)
- One who or that which transmits something (in all senses).
- Epinephrine and dopamine are two other catecholamine transmitters.1988, Lubert Stryer, Biochemistry, 3rd edition, page 1025
- Habituation and dishabituation allow for experience-dependent tuning of these reflexes and the mechanisms underlying these forms of behavioral plasticity involve changes in transmitter release from the sensory to motor neuron synapses through homosynaptic depression and the serotonin-mediated...2015 August 29, “Decline in the Recovery from Synaptic Depression in Heavier Aplysia Results from Decreased Serotonin-Induced Novel PKC Activation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
- An electronic device that generates and amplifies a carrier wave, modulates it with a meaningful signal derived from speech, music, TV or other sources, and broadcasts the resulting signal from an antenna.
transmitter meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Arabic
transmitter in Hindi
- one who or that which transmits something
- प्रेषी preṣī
- electronic device
- प्रेषी preṣī
transmitter in Tamil
- பரப்பி, அலைபரப்புக் கருவி
transmitter in Kannada
- ಹರಿಸುಗ, ಕಳಿಸುಗ
transmitter in Arabic
- one who or that which transmits something
- نَاقِل nāqil
More languagesFewer languages
- transmitter in Malay
- pemancar
Examples of transmitter in a sentence
- The effective radiated power is determined by multiplying the transmitter power output with the antenna gain.
- In a radio transmitter you modulate the carrier wave; in the receiver you demodulate it.
- A radio transmitter applies modulation to a carrier wave and the receiver applies demodulation to it to recover the message.
Forms of transmitter
| plural | transmitters |
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Origin of transmitter
From transmit + -er.
Words formed from transmitter
- arc transmitter
- carbon transmitter
- chemotransmitter
- cotransmitter
- emergency location transmitter
- emergency locator transmitter
- gaseotransmitter
- gasotransmitter
- gliotransmitter
- immunotransmitter
- infinity transmitter
- microtransmitter
- multitransmitter
- neurotransmitter
- phosphotransmitter
- radio transmitter
- radiotransmitter
- retransmitter
- teletransmitter
- transceiver
- transponder
Questions about transmitter
- What does transmitter mean?
- Transmitter means one who or that which transmits something (in all senses).
- What is transmitter in Hindi?
- Transmitter in Hindi is प्रेषी (preṣī). See Transmitter meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is transmitter?
- Transmitter is a noun.
- What is the plural of transmitter?
- The plural of transmitter is transmitters.
Words near transmitter in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: transmitter (page history and authors); transmitter (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); transmitter (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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