TRANSMITTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transmitter mean? 

• TRANSMITTER (noun)
  The noun TRANSMITTER has 3 senses:

1. someone who transmits a message

2. any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease

3. set used to broadcast radio or tv signals

  Familiarity information: TRANSMITTER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSMITTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who transmits a message

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

sender; transmitter

Context example:

return to sender

Hypernyms ("transmitter" is a kind of...):

communicator (a person who communicates with others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transmitter"):

spammer (someone who sends unwanted email (often in bulk))

Derivation:

transmit (send from one person or place to another)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

transmitter; vector

Context example:

when medical scientists talk about vectors they are usually talking about insects

Hypernyms ("transmitter" is a kind of...):

agent (an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect)

Domain category:

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

micro-organism; microorganism (any organism of microscopic size)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transmitter"):

gene delivery vector; transducing vector (a vector for delivering genes into cells)

carrier; immune carrier ((medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others)

Derivation:

transmit (transfer to another)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Set used to broadcast radio or tv signals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

sender; transmitter

Hypernyms ("transmitter" is a kind of...):

set (any electronic equipment that receives or transmits radio or tv signals)

Meronyms (parts of "transmitter"):

aerial; antenna; transmitting aerial (an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transmitter"):

jammer (a transmitter used to broadcast electronic jamming)

radio transmitter (transmitter that is the part of a radio system that transmits signals)

satellite transmitter (a transmitter on a communications satellite)

television transmitter (transmitter that is part of a television system)

Derivation:

transmit (broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television)

 Context examples 

Dopamine is a major transmitter in the extrapyramidal system of the brain, and important in regulating movement.

(Dopamine, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The scientists tested the role of astrocytes in breathing by genetically modifying the ability of astrocytes in the preBötzinger complex to release transmitters.

(Star-like cells may help the brain tune breathing rhythms, National Institutes of Health)

An adaptor protein which bridges cell surface tyrosine kinase receptors with downstream signal transmitters such as ras p21.

(GRB2 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

Distinct from the channel opening induced by endogenous glutamate transmitter, ivermectin-activated channels open very slowly but essentially irreversibly.

(Ivermectin, NCI Thesaurus)

Proline-, glutamic acid-, leucine-rich protein 1 (Pelp1 or modulator of nongenomic activity of estrogen, MNAR) is a recently discovered transmitter of estrogen signals.

(Pelp1 Estrogen Receptor Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

It is a capsule with a lens, a light, a camera, a radio transmitter, and a battery inside.

(Capsule endoscope, NCI Dictionary)

Typically such processes involving transmitters and receptors would be modeled for interpreting dynamic scans.

(Binding Potential, NCI Thesaurus)

A hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections (cells), each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver

(Cellular Telephone, NCI Thesaurus)

The scientists used radio or GPS transmitters to track alligators adn discovered that the amount of time alligators spend in fresh or salt water depends on factors such as tide range and water temperature.

(Alligators, rulers of the swamps, link marine and freshwater ecosystems, NSF)

The mitochondria rich section of a photoreceptor within the retina that provides phosphates to the outer segment and is the source of the dark current that when suppressed by light induces a voltage change and subsequent release of transmitters from the cell.

(Ellipsoid Portion of the Inner Segment of the Photoreceptor Cell, NCI Thesaurus)