base station (redirected from Cell towers)

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.

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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.