Transmitter Definition

trăns-mĭtər, trănz-
transmitters
noun
transmitters
A person who transmits.
Webster's New World
A thing that transmits.
Webster's New World
An electronic device that generates and amplifies a carrier wave, modulates it with a meaningful signal derived from speech or other sources, and radiates the resulting signal from an antenna.
American Heritage
The portion of a telephone that converts the incident sounds into electrical impulses that are conveyed to a remote receiver.
American Heritage
A telegraphic sending instrument.
American Heritage
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Noun

Singular:
transmitter
Plural:
transmitters

Origin of Transmitter

Transmitter Sentence Examples

  • At first it was usual to join the microphone transmitter in the direct circuit.

  • The earliest instrument of this kind was the Hunnings transmitter, patented in 1878.

  • It was found that to achieve this result the transmitter must be so constructed as to send out prolonged trains of slightly damped waves.

  • Fitted to the aircraft is a microwave downlink transmitter.

  • It is obvious that this apparatus might be used either as a transmitter or as a receiver, but that the effects must under ordinary circumstances be in either case extremely feeble.

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Words Starting With

TTRTRA

Words Ending With

RERTER

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