transmitter

1. 1.

   someone who transmits a message

   “return to sender”

   Synonymssender

   Broadercommunicator

   Narrowerspammer
2. 2.

   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”

   Synonymsvector

   Broaderagent

   Narrowertransducing vectorcarrier

   animal · microorganism

3. 3.

   set used to broadcast radio or tv signals

   Synonymssender

   Broaderset

   Narrowerjammerradio transmittersatellite transmittertelevision transmitter

   Partsantenna

Other forms of transmitter

plural

transmitters·

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.

Questions about transmitter

What does transmitter mean?

transmitter means "someone who transmits a message". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in transmitter?

transmitter has 3 syllables: tran-smit-ter. The stress falls on "smit". In IPA it is /tɹænˈsmɪtɚ/.

What is another word for transmitter?

Close synonyms include sender, vector, sender. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is transmitter a common word?

transmitter is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.