transmissible
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin trānsmissus + -ible.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
transmissible (comparative more transmissible, superlative most transmissible)
- Able to be transmitted.
- Synonym: transmittable
- (medicine, of a disease) Capable of being transmitted from one person to another.
- Hypernym: infectious
- Synonyms: communicable, spreadable, catching (but the last two are not interchangeable in formal registers)
- Antonyms: nontransmissible, noncommunicable
- Hyponym: contagious
- (radio communications or broadcasting, of a message or program) Capable of being transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
able to be transmitted
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contagious
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References[edit]
- ^ “transmissible”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio: (file)
Adjective[edit]
transmissible (plural transmissibles)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “transmissible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.