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base station (1) An earth-based transmitting/receiving station for cellular phones, paging services and other wireless transmission systems. See earth station.(2) A transmitting/receiving station in a wireless local area network (WLAN) that is fixed in location. Base station is a generic name for "access point." See wireless LAN. base station [′bās ‚stā·shən] (communications) A land station, in the land mobile service, carrying on a service with land mobile stations (a base station may secondarily communicate with other base stations incident to communications with land mobile stations). A station in a land mobile system which remains in a fixed location and communicates with the mobile stations. (engineering) The point from which a survey begins. (geodesy) A geographic position whose absolute gravity value is known. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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