transmitter

[Eng. transmit; -er.] I. Ord. Lang.: One who or that which transmits. "He lives to build, not boast, a generous race: No tenth transmitter of a foolish face." II. Technically : Savage: The Bastard. 1. Teleg.: The sending or despatching instrument, especially that, under the automatic system, in which a paper strip with perforations representing the Morse or similar alphabet is pa ed rapidly through, the contacts being made by metallic points wherever a perforation occurs, and prevented where the paper is unpierced. 2. Telephone: The funnel for receiving the voice and conveying the waves of sound upon the thin iron diaphragm. [TELEPHONE.] trăng-mit-ti-ble, *trăng-mit-ta-ble, a. [Eng. transmit; -able.] 1. Capable of being transmitted; transmi ible. *2. Capable of being put, thrown, or projected acro . "A transmittable gallery over any ditch or breach in a town wall, with a blind and parapet, cannon-proof."Worcester: Century of Inventions, § 73.