transmitted

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of transmit.

   Ancient scribes transmitted these texts by copying them carefully by hand.

   The data was transmitted to the server within seconds.

   Note

   One spelling does two jobs. It serves as the simple past (scribes transmitted the texts) and, after have or be, as the past participle (the data was transmitted). Note the doubled t: because transmit is stressed on its final syllable, the consonant doubles before -ed. Nearly every sense of the verb is transitive, which is why passives are so common: signals, diseases and inherited traits are usually things that get transmitted.

2. 2
   adjectivein compounds

   Having been sent or passed on in a specified way, as a signal, message, or disease.

   Sexually transmitted infections can often be prevented with proper care.

   The transmitted signal carried the broadcast across the entire valley.

   Similarbroadcast

   Oppositereceived

   Note

   An adjective that seldom stands alone. It usually follows a word naming the manner of passing on, as in a telegraphically transmitted message or a sexually transmitted infection. When that word is an -ly adverb, the pair is written open, without a hyphen. The useful habit is to ask how something was transmitted. That manner word carries the meaning, and the adjective completes it.

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