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Definition of "transmissible" [trans•mis•si•ble]

  • That can be transmitted: transmissible signals. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "transmissible" in a sentence
  • "He coined the term transmissible spongiform encephalopathy."
  • "What makes a genre story transmissible, which is to say, accessible and meaningful to the reader, is its use of genre tropes."
  • "That would change though if it became human-to-human transmissible, which is the concern with the Indonesian cluster."