Word of the Day:
transmit
What It Means
To send or convey from one person, place or thing to another.
To spread or pass on (something such as a disease or a signal).
To impart, convey or hand down by inheritance or heredity.
A Mayday call was transmitted by the stricken vessel.
Transmit in Context
“The tractive and braking forces are transmitted to the body through a downward projecting pivot pin in the normal way.”
Did You Know?
From Middle English transmitten, borrowed from Latin trānsmittō (“transmit”, verb, literally “across-send”).
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