transmissible
transmissible Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Capable of being passed or spread from one person or organism to another (especially of a disease, infection, or genetic trait).
"Public health officials implemented strict quarantine protocols after determining that the newly identified virus was highly transmissible."
Capable of being sent, conveyed, or transferred through a medium or from one person to another (of energy, signals, knowledge, or legal rights).
"Under the terms of the municipal charter, the commercial operating license is strictly personal and is not transmissible to a third party."
Word Nuance & Usage
In medicine and epidemiology, "transmissible" is preferred over "transmittable" to describe diseases or pathogens, whereas "transmittable" is more commonly applied to electronic signals, data, or legal rights.
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the mid-17th century from French transmissible or directly from Medieval Latin transmissibilis, derived from the Latin past participle stem transmiss- (from transmittere, meaning "to send across").