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say it: tran-SMIT-ur
transmitter is a noun meaning "someone who transmits a message". It is pronounced /tɹænˈsmɪtɚ/ — tran-SMIT-ur. It carries 3 recorded senses.
any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease
“mosquitos are vectors of malaria and yellow fever”
“fleas are vectors of the plague”
“aphids are transmitters of plant diseases”
“when medical scientists talk about vectors they are usually talking about insects”
animal · microorganism
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 transmitter 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.