Transmit vs Transform - What's the difference?
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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).
To change greatly the appearance or form of.
* Shakespeare
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To change the nature, condition or function of; to change in nature, disposition, heart, character, etc.; to convert.
* Bible, Romans xii. 2
(mathematics) To subject to a transformation; to change into another form without altering the value.
(electricity) To subject to the action of a transformer.
(genetics) To subject (a cell) to transformation.
To undergo a transformation.
In transitive terms the difference between transmit and transform
is that transmit is to convey energy or force through a mechanism while transform is to change the nature, condition or function of; to change in nature, disposition, heart, character, etc.; to convert.In intransitive terms the difference between transmit and transform
is that transmit is to send out a signal (as opposed to receive) while transform is to undergo a transformation.As a noun transform is
the result of a transformation.transmit
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(en verb)- The alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.
- Love may transform me to an oyster.
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- Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.