telestation
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telestation (plural telestations)
- (rare) A remote facility that sends telemetry or other data to a central facility
- 1968, Danish Atomic Energy Commission, Annual report:
- With the assistance of the Greenland Technical Organisation's telestations, snow samples were collected from various localities in Greenland […]
- 1992, Rudi van de Velde, Hospital information systems: the next generation:
- From the ward, the nurses communicate with the HIS through a telestation.
- 1995, Franklin Y. Cheng, Urban disaster mitigation: the role of engineering and technology:
- It is planning to use the rainfall data obtained from these telestations […]