'Transmitted' definitions:
Definition of 'transmitted'
From: WordNet
adjective
Occurring among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features" [syn: familial, genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmitted, transmissible]
Definition of 'Transmitted'
From: GCIDE
- Transmit \Trans*mit"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transmitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Transmitting.] [L. transmittere, transmissum; trans across, over + mittere to send: cf. F. transmettre. See Missile.]
- 1. To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, to transmit a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money, or bills of exchange, from one country to another. [1913 Webster]
- The ancientest fathers must be next removed, as Clement of Alexandria, and that Eusebian book of evangelic preparation, transmitting our ears through a hoard of heathenish obscenities to receive the gospel. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- The scepter of that kingdom continued to be transmitted in the dynasty of Castile. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To suffer to pass through; as, glass transmits light; metals transmit, or conduct, electricity. [1913 Webster]