transmitter

English

Etymology

transmit +‎ -er

Noun

transmitter (plural transmitters)

1. One who or that which transmits something (in all senses).
2. 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.

Derived terms

• carbon transmitter
• chemotransmitter
• cotransmitter
• emergency locator transmitter
• gaseotransmitter
• gasotransmitter
• gliotransmitter
• multitransmitter
• neurotransmitter
• phosphotransmitter
• radiotransmitter
• retransmitter
• teletransmitter

 

Translations

one who or that which transmits something

• Catalan: transmissor m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發射機／发射机 (zh) (fāshèjī), 发射机 (zh) (fāshèjī)

• Czech: vysílač (cs)
• Finnish: lähetin (fi)
• French: transmetteur (fr) m
• German: Sender (de) m
• Greek: διαβιβαστής (el) m (diavivastís), πομπός (el) m (pompós)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 送話器 (そうわき, sōwaki), トランスミッター (toransumittā)
• Macedonian: пренесувач m (prenesuvač)
• Polish: przekaźnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: transmissor (pt) m
• Romanian: transmițãtor
• Russian: переда́тчик (ru) m (peredátčik)
• Spanish: transmisor

electronic device

• Catalan: transmissor m
• Czech: vysílač (cs) m
• Finnish: radiolähetin (fi)
• French: transmetteur (fr) m
• German: Sendegerät n, Sendeanlage f
• Greek: πομπός (el) m (pompós), αναμεταδότης (el) m (anametadótis)
• Irish: tarchuradóir m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latvian: raidītājs m
• Macedonian: предава́тел m (predavátel)
• Malay: pemancar
• Polish: nadajnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: transmissor (pt) m
• Russian: переда́тчик (ru) m (peredátčik)
• Spanish: transmisor