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adjective

transmitted

passed or sent from one person, place, or thing to another

In a sentence

Six example sentences with transmitted, each labelled with its topic.

  • The transmitted data arrived with three corrupted packets, so the receiver asked the server to send just those again.

    Technology

  • Astronomers waited twenty minutes for the transmitted photographs to cross the distance between Mars and Earth.

    Science

  • The transmitted text of Homer passed through centuries of copyists, each one handing a slightly altered version to the next.

    History

  • The transmitted infection spread through the ward before anyone thought to check the shared thermometer.

    Medicine

  • The transmitted melody changed a little with each generation, and the version sung today has a verse the recordings lack.

    Music

  • A transmitted shock from the oil market reached grocery prices within two months, mostly through the cost of trucking.

    Economics

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