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The term "transmit" is employed in literature with a remarkable versatility that spans both the physical and the abstract. At times, it designates the act of passing along tangible signals or information, as seen when military dispatches or spacecraft communications are sent ([1], [2], [3], [4]). In other contexts, it captures the more intangible process of conveying cultural or inherited qualities—the transfer of prejudices, traditions, or even hereditary traits—illustrating how societies and individuals preserve their legacies ([5], [6], [7], [8]). Moreover, authors extend its meaning to include natural phenomena and aesthetic experiences, such as the transmission of light and color, thereby enriching descriptions of the natural world ([9], [10], [11]). Whether as a metaphor for enduring legacy or the literal sending of messages, "transmit" functions as a bridge linking the past with the present across diverse fields of human endeavor ([12], [13], [14], [15]).
  1. They would also take off the signals of the enemy and transmit them.
    — from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant
  2. Mariner could transmit much more information to Earth than earlier flyby spacecraft.
    — from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
  3. As was proper, Mr. Ferguson stood by to transmit our orders and answer questions.
    — from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
  4. I have my orders, and I transmit them to you.
    — from The History of a Crime by Victor Hugo
  5. They standardize our national prejudices and transmit them.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  6. Young men marrying with the slightest taint of this poison in the blood will surely transmit the disease to their children.
    — from Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects by Henry N. (Henry Newell) Guernsey
  7. They wished to preserve the memory of their ancestors, and to transmit to posterity their own achievements.
    — from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  8. Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.
    — from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
  9. It is a singular circumstance that white varieties generally transmit their colour much more truly than any other variety.
    — from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
  10. That which will not transmit the light does but deprive itself of radiance.
    — from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
  11. Flowers transmit their colour truly, or most capriciously.
    — from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
  12. “Yes, madame; but I only came back on one condition--that I would transmit to your majesty the will of the people.”
    — from Twenty years after by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet
  13. I wished to transmit the sceptre I had received from my ancestors with honour to my son—but that is over!
    — from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
  14. ἐπέμφθην, to send, to dispatch on any message, embassy, business, &c., Mat. 2.8; 11.2; 14.10; to transmit, Ac. 11.29.
    — from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield
  15. Without such formal education, it is not possible to transmit all the resources and achievements of a complex society.
    — from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

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