transmissive
transmissive — adjective
- transmissivepositive
- more transmissivecomparative
- most transmissivesuperlative
1. having the ability to allow something — such as light, heat, sound, or electrica
having the ability to allow something — such as light, heat, sound, or electrical signals — to pass through or move from one place to another.
Feng chose a transmissive coating for the laboratory windows to maximise natural light.
transmissive + noun (attributive describing a material or layer)
Copper wire is highly transmissive of electrical current and is used in household wiring.
transmissive + of + [thing transmitted]
Camille tested the lens's transmissive properties using five different wavelengths of infrared light.
Clear glass is far more transmissive to visible light than to infrared radiation.
Ezra designed a transmissive filter that blocks ultraviolet rays while letting blue light through.
- conductive
more specific to heat or electricity; implies active carrier movement rather than general passage
- permeable
focuses on allowing substances to pass through a barrier; more common for fluids and gases
- transparent
only about allowing visible light to pass; narrower than transmissive
- non-transmissive
direct opposite; blocks rather than allows passage
- reflective
redirects waves/particles rather than letting them through
文法句型
transmissive + noun
transmissive + of + [thing transmitted]
transmissive + to + [medium]
用法筆記
Most common in scientific and technical contexts describing materials, coatings, or media. Frequently appears attributively before a noun (e.g. transmissive layer).
常見錯誤
2. able to be passed from one person, living thing, or place to another — for examp
able to be passed from one person, living thing, or place to another — for example, a disease that spreads between people or a genetic trait inherited across generations.
The virus is transmissive through airborne droplets released when an infected person coughs.
transmissive + through + [medium/route]
Some genetic conditions are transmissive from parent to child even when neither parent shows symptoms.
transmissive + from + [source] + to + [recipient]
Dr. Okoro traced how the bacterial strain was transmissive from hospital patients to their family members.
The fur-colour trait in Quan's lab mice is transmissive only when both parents carry the recessive gene.
Megan avoided contact with the patient because the skin infection was highly transmissive.
- transmissible
the more common synonym in medicine; nearly identical meaning but far more frequent
- communicable
restricted to diseases that spread between people; narrower than transmissive
- hereditary
limited to genetic transmission from parent to offspring; a subset of transmissive
- non-transmissible
direct opposite; cannot be passed from one to another
文法句型
transmissive + from + [source] + to + [recipient]
transmissive + through + [medium]
用法筆記
More common in medical, biological, and social-science writing than in everyday speech. Distinguish from sense 1: sense 1 describes something that performs transmission; sense 2 describes something that CAN be transmitted.