"earth station" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: earth stations [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} earth station (plural earth stations)
  1. (telecommunications) an Earth-based radio station which relays signals to and from communications satellites. Wikipedia link: earth station Categories (topical): Telecommunications Translations (Earth-based satellite communications station): jordstation [common-gender] (Danish), maa-asema (Finnish), jordstasjon [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), jordstasjon [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk)

Inflected forms

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