Associations to the word «Transmitter»

Wiktionary

TRANSMITTER, noun. Something that transmits something (in all senses).
TRANSMITTER, noun. 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.

Dictionary definition

TRANSMITTER, noun. Someone who transmits a message; "return to sender".
TRANSMITTER, noun. 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".
TRANSMITTER, noun. Set used to broadcast radio or tv signals.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats