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English
Etymology
From Latin trānsmissus + -ible.[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
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.
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French
Pronunciation
Adjective
transmissible (plural transmissibles)
- transmissible, transmittable
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