telestation

telestation

English

Etymology

tele- +‎ station

Noun

telestation (plural telestations)

1. (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 […]