uplink
(noun) a transmission from Earth to a spacecraft or the path of such a transmission
Source: WordNet® 3.1
uplink (plural uplinks)
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.
(by analogy, less formally) The communication path from a mobile device to a base station, a consumer to the network backbone, a client device to a server etc.
Data transmission from a data station to the headend.
• downlink
uplink (third-person singular simple present uplinks, present participle uplinking, simple past and past participle uplinked)
To transmit a signal by means of an uplink.
• downlink
• link up, linkup
Source: Wiktionary
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
