transmitter
IPA: trænsmˈɪtɝ
noun
- One who or that which transmits something (in all senses).
- An electronic device that generates and amplifies a carrier wave, modulates it with a meaningful signal derived from speech, music, TV or other sources, and broadcasts the resulting signal from an antenna.
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Examples of "transmitter" in Sentences
- Shes about the size of a dinner plate, and the transmitter is glued to her shell.
- The transmitter is coded, like the newer Polar transmitter units, so you never have to worry about interference from other transmitters -- a common problem in race events.
- They do this by a “chemical” reaction ie: a tiny amount of a substance called a neuro-transmitter is released from the the nerve ending into the junction with the next nerve (synapse).
- Today, however, Belkin announced its latest TuneBase FM transmitter is equipped with something called "ClearScan" technology, which can automatically seek out the clearest FM frequency to play your tunes.
- This week, however, Belkin announced its latest TuneBase FM transmitter is equipped with something called "ClearScan" technology, which can automatically seek out the clearest FM frequency to play your tunes.
- Is it, as we suspected, based on indirect evidence, the presynaptic element of the synapse where chemical transmitter is released, or is it the postsynaptic site which contains the receptors which bind and respond to the transmitter?
- In the wonderful system of the telephone with its miracle of intercommunication there is, as you know, at each instrument that little film of metal which we call the transmitter, into which the message is delivered, and whose vibrations are repeated scores of miles away.
- The Cyclers are controlled by a hidden handset but they are also robots acting on messages rather than just simple radio-controlled devices and if the message gets corrupted by interference they don't do it and if the transmitter is turned off they shut down and go to sleep until it turned back on.
- But as knowledge of wave motions developed and the laws of governing them were better understood, the receiver was "tuned" to respond to the transmitter, that is, the transmitter was made to set up a definite rate of vibrations in the ether and the receiver made to respond to this rate, just like two tuning forks sounding the same note.
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