say it: tranz-MIT
transmit is a verb meaning "transfer to another". It carries 4 recorded senses.
transfer to another
“communicate a disease”
transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
“Sound carries well over water”
“The airwaves carry the sound”
“Many metals conduct heat”
broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television
“We cannot air this X-rated song”
broadcast medium
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for transmit come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.