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What is the adjective for transmitting?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb transmit which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

transmissive
  1. of, or relating to the transmission of something
  2. of, or relating to transmissivity of a material
  3. Synonyms:
      4. contagious, infectious, catching, communicable, transmittable, transmissible, pestilent, infective, spreading, epidemic, pestiferous, transferable, pestilential, pandemic, epizootic, deadly, poisonous, spreadable, endemic, taking, impartible, inoculable … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The sample chamber could be rotated to alter the incident angle for both reflective and transmissive diffraction.”
      “We partition both the asymmetric and symmetric fault modes into disjoint omissive and transmissive submodes.”
      “In transmissive systems, the transistors block part of the light in each pixel.”
transmittant
  1. Of, or relating to a transmission.
  2. (physics) That passes through a substance.
transmittable
  1. able to be transmitted; transmissible
  2. Synonyms:
      3. contagious, communicable, infectious, transmissible, catching, pestilent, infective, spreading, transferable, pestilential, pandemic, pestiferous, virulent, epizootic, taking, epidemic, spreadable, catchable, conveyable, endemic, communicative, mephitic, contaminating, pernicious, uncontrollable, vitiating, catchy, malignant, highly contagious, highly infectious, highly infective, rapidly spreading, dangerous, miasmatic, easily spread, poisonous, deadly, transmissive, inoculable, impartible, noxious, toxic, unhealthy, contaminated, harmful, diseased, disease-ridden, noisome, growing, permeating … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The common cold is highly transmittable, spreading easily from person to person.”
      “The prototype is securely packaged in a transmittable container, ready to be transported to the testing facility.”
      “If a player is bleeding, there is a danger that the opponent might catch a transmittable disease.”
transmittible
  1. (archaic) Alternative spelling of transmittable
transmitted
  1. (sometimes in combination) That has been transmitted (in a specified manner).
  2. Synonyms:
      3. willed, inherited, bequeathed, transferred, hereditary, handed down, passed down, handed-down, obtained by inheritance, passed-down, passed-on, genetic, inborn, inheritable, heritable, genetical, innate, inbred, congenital, natural, connate, rooted, organic, in the genes, in the blood, acquired, accrued, endowed, given, granted, passed on, moved, relocated, transported, conveyed, shifted, reassigned, removed, sent, shipped, transplanted, restationed, consigned … more
transmissible
  1. able to be transmitted
    1. (medicine) capable of being transmitted from one person to another; contagious
  2. Synonyms:
      3. contagious, communicable, transmittable, infectious, catching, pestilent, infective, spreading, transferable, pestilential, pandemic, pestiferous, virulent, epizootic, taking, epidemic, spreadable, catchable, conveyable, endemic, mephitic, contaminating, pernicious, uncontrollable, communicative, vitiating, malignant, catchy, highly contagious, highly infectious, rapidly spreading, highly infective, dangerous, miasmatic, easily spread, poisonous, deadly, transmissive, inoculable, impartible, noxious, toxic, unhealthy, contaminated, harmful, diseased, disease-ridden, noisome, growing, permeating … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Epstein-Barr virus is very common and transmissible virus in the herpes family that causes infectious mononucleosis.”
      “Among humans, the disease kuru, found in the south Pacific, was also shown to be transmissible.”
      “Neurodegenerative diseases causing transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are the subject of intense research.”
transmitting
  1. present participle of transmit
  2. Synonyms:
      3. conveying, sending, transferring, dispatching, transporting, carrying, conducting, shipping, consigning, routing, routeing, taking, funnelling, funneling, shooting, channeling, channelling, forwarding, packing off, handing on, moving, relaying, communicating, remitting, bringing, bearing, posting, directing, imparting, delivering, passing on, mailing, shifting, freighting, ferrying, addressing, hauling, spreading, trajecting, carting, toting, relocating, packing, siphoning, syphoning, feeding, circulating, schlepping, sending off, giving … more
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