"numbers station" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: numbers stations [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} numbers station (plural numbers stations)
  1. (radio, espionage) A shortwave radio station characterized by unusual broadcasts, often of artificially generated voices reciting streams of numbers, words, etc., supposedly coded messages. Categories (topical): Espionage, Radio Translations (shortwave radio station): 數字電台 (Chinese Mandarin), 数字电台 (shùzì diàntái) (Chinese Mandarin), numeroasema (Finnish), station de nombres [feminine] (French), 乱数放送 (ransū hōsō) (alt: らんすうほうそう) (Japanese), 暗号放送 (angō hōsō) (alt: あんごうほうそう) (Japanese), ナンバーステーション (nanbā sutēshon) (Japanese), номерны́е радиоста́нции (nomernýje radiostáncii) (Russian), числовые радиостанции (čislovyje radiostancii) (Russian)

Inflected forms

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