Etymology From transmit + -er. Pronunciation Audio (US):(file) Noun English Wikipedia has an article on:transmitterWikipedia transmitter (plural transmitters) 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. Derived terms arc transmittercarbon transmitterchemotransmittercotransmitteremergency locator transmittergaseotransmittergasotransmittergliotransmitterinfinity transmittermultitransmitterneurotransmitterphosphotransmitterradiotransmitterradio transmitterretransmitterteletransmitter Translations one who or that which transmits something Arabic: نَاقِل (nāqil) Catalan: transmissor m Chinese: Mandarin: 發射機/发射机 (zh) (fāshèjī) Czech: vysílač (cs) Danish: sender (da) c, afsender (da) c Faroese: sendari m Finnish: lähetin (fi) French: transmetteur (fr) m German: Sender (de) m Greek: διαβιβαστής (el) m (diavivastís), πομπός (el) m (pompós) Icelandic: sendir m Japanese: 送話器 (そうわき, sōwaki), トランスミッター (toransumittā) Macedonian: пренесувач m (prenesuvač) Norwegian: Bokmål: sender Nynorsk: sendar Polish: przekaźnik (pl) m Portuguese: transmissor (pt) m Romanian: transmițător (ro) Russian: переда́тчик (ru) m (peredátčik) Spanish: transmisor m Swedish: sändare (sv) c electronic device Armenian: հաղորդիչ (hy) (haġordičʻ) Catalan: transmissor m Czech: vysílač (cs) m Danish: sender (da) c Finnish: radiolähetin (fi) French: transmetteur (fr) m German: Sendegerät n, Sendeanlage f Greek: πομπός (el) m (pompós), αναμεταδότης (el) m (anametadótis) Irish: tarchuradóir m Latvian: raidītājs m Macedonian: предава́тел m (predavátel) Malay: pemancar Polish: nadajnik (pl) m Portuguese: transmissor (pt) m Russian: переда́тчик (ru) m (peredátčik) Spanish: transmisor m