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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The portion of a communications link used for the transmission of signals from a ground station to a satellite or to an airborne platform.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: downlink
noun
The communication path from a mobile device to a base station, a consumer to the network backbone, a client device to a server, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: by analogy; less formally; by analogy; less formally
Topics: communications, electrical-engineering, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, telecommunications
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noun
Data transmission from a data station to the headend.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To transmit a signal by means of an uplink.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Antonyms: downlink
noun
a transmission from Earth to a spacecraft or the path of such a transmission
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: transmission
History
From up + link.
