transponder
Portuguese, noun
transponder is spelled T-R-A-N-S-P-O-N-D-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 60,841st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Transponder is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “transponder (transceiver that transmits a signal in response to another)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ver transpônder”.
What does transponder mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetransponder (transceiver that transmits a signal in response to another)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ver transpônder
noun: 1. aparelho que recebe sinal e responde emitindo sinal com dados, entre os quais, a localização, identificação, velocidade e altitude de maneira automática 2. dispositivo de comunicação eletrônico complementar de automação e cujo objetivo é receber, amplificar e retransmitir um sinal em uma frequência diferente ou transmitir de uma fonte uma mensagem pré-determinada em resposta à outra pré-definida “de outra fonte”
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of transponder
- transponders plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to transponder
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is transponder in Portuguese?
transponder appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).