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transmitter

The English word “transmitter” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. One who or that which transmits something (in all senses).
  2. 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.

Etymology

From transmit + -er.

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