Transmit vs Disperse - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between transmit and disperse

is that transmit is while disperse is .

(transmitt)

To send or convey something from one person, place or thing to another.

To spread or pass on something such as a disease or a signal.

To impart, convey or hand down something by inheritance or heredity.

To communicate news or information.

To convey energy or force through a mechanism.

To send out a signal (as opposed to receive).

* (l)

(intransitive) To scatter in different directions

The Jews are dispersed among all nations.

* Bible, Proverbs xv. 7

The lips of the wise disperse knowledge.

* Cowper

Two lions, in the still, dark night, / A herd of beeves disperse .

(intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate

(intransitive) To disseminate

(physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract

(intransitive) To distribute throughout

* Do not confuse with the monetary word disburse, despite similarity.

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