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Uplink

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The portion of a communications link used for the transmission of signals from an Earth terminal to a satellite or to an airborne platform. An uplink is the converse of a downlink. An uplink or downlink is distinguished from reverse link or forward link.
  2. 2
    a transmission from Earth to a spacecraft or the path of such a transmission wordnet
  3. 3
    The communication path from a mobile device to a base station, a consumer to the network backbone, a client device to a server, etc.
  4. 4
    Data transmission from a data station to the headend.
Verb
  1. 1
    To transmit a signal by means of an uplink. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From up + link.

Etymology 2

From up + link.

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