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retransmitter

noun

Etymology

From re- + transmitter.

  1. derived from trānsmittō
  2. inherited from transmitten
  3. formed as transmitter — “transmit + -er”
  4. prefixed as retransmitter — “re + transmitter”

Definitions

  1. Any device that retransmits a signal.

    • For example, much of the population in many rural areas gets television by satellite dishes hooked to local retransmitters, not even affiliate stations, just literal retransmitters.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for retransmitter. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA