transmitter

English

Etymology

From transmit +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

transmitter (plural transmitters)

1. One who or that which transmits something (in all senses).
   • 1988, Lubert Stryer, Biochemistry, 3rd edition, page 1025:

     Epinephrine and dopamine are two other catecholamine transmitters.

   • 2015 August 29, “Decline in the Recovery from Synaptic Depression in Heavier Aplysia Results from Decreased Serotonin-Induced Novel PKC Activation”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     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 recovery from depression, respectively.

2. 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.

Derived terms

• arc transmitter
• carbon transmitter
• chemotransmitter
• cotransmitter
• emergency location transmitter
• emergency locator transmitter
• gaseotransmitter
• gasotransmitter
• gliotransmitter
• infinity transmitter
• multitransmitter
• neurotransmitter
• phosphotransmitter
• radiotransmitter
• radio transmitter
• retransmitter
• teletransmitter

Translations

one who or that which transmits something

• Arabic: نَاقِل (nāqil)
• Belarusian: перада́тчык m (pjeradátčyk), перадава́льнік m (pjeradaválʹnik)
• Bulgarian: предава́тел (bg) m (predavátel)
• Catalan: transmissor m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發射機 / 发射机 (zh) (fāshèjī)

• Czech: vysílač (cs)
• Danish: sender (da) c, afsender (da) c
• Faroese: sendari m
• Finnish: lähetin (fi)
• French: transmetteur (fr) m
• German: Sender (de) m
• Greek: διαβιβαστής (el) m (diavivastís), πομπός (el) m (pompós)
• Icelandic: sendir m
• Japanese: 送話器 (そうわき, sōwaki), トランスミッター (toransumittā)
• Korean: 송화기(送話器) (ko) (songhwagi)
• Macedonian: пренесувач m (prenesuvač)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sender

  Nynorsk: sendar

• Polish: przekaźnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: transmissor (pt) m
• Romanian: transmițător (ro)
• Russian: переда́тчик (ru) m (peredátčik)
• Spanish: transmisor (es) m
• Swedish: sändare (sv) c
• Ukrainian: передава́ч m (peredaváč)

electronic device

• Armenian: հաղորդիչ (hy) (haġordičʻ)
• Belarusian: перада́тчык m (pjeradátčyk), перадава́льнік m (pjeradaválʹnik)
• Bulgarian: предава́тел (bg) m (predavátel)
• Catalan: transmissor m
• Czech: vysílač (cs) m
• Danish: sender (da) c
• Esperanto: sendilo
• Finnish: radiolähetin (fi)
• French: transmetteur (fr) m
• German: Sendegerät n, Sendeanlage f
• Greek: πομπός (el) m (pompós), αναμεταδότης (el) m (anametadótis)
• Irish: tarchuradóir m
• Latvian: raidītājs m
• Macedonian: предавател m (predavatel)
• Malay: pemancar
• Polish: nadajnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: transmissor (pt) m
• Russian: переда́тчик (ru) m (peredátčik)
• Spanish: transmisor (es) m
• Ukrainian: передава́ч m (peredaváč)