transmitter
a person or thing that transmits.
Also called transmitting set .Radio. a device for sending electromagnetic waves; the part of a broadcasting apparatus that generates and modulates the radiofrequency current and conveys it to the antenna.
the part of a telephonic or telegraphic apparatus that converts sound waves or mechanical movements into corresponding electric waves or impulses.
Biochemistry. neurotransmitter.
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How to use transmitter in a sentence
That famous message was the most powerful signal ever sent from Earth, meant in part to demonstrate the capabilities of the observatory’s new high-power radio transmitter.
The transmitter would beam out radio waves at an asteroid and, based on how they were reflected back, researchers could determine the rock’s size, shape, and path.
The Arecibo Observatory collapsed this week. What now? | Charlie Wood | December 4, 2020 | Popular-Science“The high-powered transmitters allowed what was the original primary purpose of the telescope — the study of the Earth’s ionosphere,” Campbell says.
The authors mentioned studies from France and Australia suggesting that children were not major transmitters of the virus.
Demographic information about the outbreaks, like age, can also help researchers understand whether children, even when asymptomatic, are transmitters.
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A small radio transmitter had been found in her apartment, and she had been arrested by the IRA and admitted her involvement.
Fessenden has built a huge radio transmitter in a place called Brant Rock, Massachusetts.
The Man Who Made America: Simone Winchester Talks New Book | Eric Herschthal | October 17, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe transmitter turns the iPod into an individual radio station, with a broadcast radius of a few feet.
But it was not only as an organiser and transmitter of orders that Berthier proved his usefulness to his chief.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonOne satisfactory way is by the use of a miniature buzzer transmitter.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn | Margaret PenroseThey have a portable loud-speaker system, and there is an inverter, as you call it, at the transmitter.
The Flaming Mountain | Harold Leland GoodwinHolding the transmitter tightly Hendricks called the code of the command bunker.
Second Variety | Philip Kindred DickTen dry cells should be connected in series and used to supply current to the transmitter circuit, as shown by B in the figure.
The Boy Mechanic, Book 2 | Various
British Dictionary definitions for transmitter
/ (trænzˈmɪtə) /
a person or thing that transmits
the equipment used for generating and amplifying a radio-frequency carrier, modulating the carrier with information, and feeding it to an aerial for transmission
the microphone in a telephone that converts sound waves into audio-frequency electrical signals
a device that converts mechanical movements into coded electrical signals transmitted along a telegraph circuit
physiol short for neurotransmitter
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Scientific definitions for transmitter
[ trăns′mĭt-ər ]
A device that converts sound, light, or electrical signals into radio, microwave, or other electrical signals of sufficient strength for the purpose of telecommunication. Compare receiver.
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