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BASE STATION

Specialty Definition: BASE STATION

DomainDefinition

Computing

A land station in the land mobile service carrying on a service with land mobile stations(1); a station which handles all calls made by mobile customers within its geographical area(2). Source: European Union. (references)

Hydrologic

A computer which accepts radio signals from ALERT gaging sites, decodes the data, places the data in a database, and makes the data available to other users. (references)

Mining

An observation point used in geophysical surveys as a reference, to whichmeasurements at additional points can be compared. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: BASE STATION

Specialty definitions using "BASE STATION": 4-way splitterAutomated Local Evaluation in Real Timebase control unitcell-site data file, code division multiple access, code-division multiple access, commutating switch module, configuration data fileDigital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunicationsfour-way splitterhand-offintra-base station system handover, intra-BSS handoverLocal Flood Warning Systemmagnetic variometerpartial echoradio cell, radio zone, RF diagnostic sub-systemshuttle-bus drivertime division duplexing, timing advancevan driverzero time. (references)

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Commercial Usage: BASE STATION

DomainTitle

High Tech

  • Microsoft Broadband Networking Wireless Base Station (reference)

  • Apple Computer M7601LL/B AirPort Base Station (reference)

  • Base Station 193ru Back Plane& Chassis 1 110vac Bs-ps-ac (reference)

  • Base Station Equip-power Supplycard Use With Bs-sh (reference)

  • Access Unit / Base Station - Indoor Mounting Detached Antennas (reference)

    (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: BASE STATION

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Mt. Washington from near base station, White Mountains. Credit: Library of Congress.

Base station, Mt. Washington Railway, White Mts., N.H. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: BASE STATION

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

These companies are the key suppliers of both base station systems and mobile switching centers. (references)

They usually prefer to directly sell base station systems and mobile switching centers to Chinese operators. (references)

The following table illustrates the competition in base station systems and mobile switching centers in China. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expressions: BASE STATION

Expressions using "BASE STATION": base station system radio base station. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BASE STATION

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

base station

36

apple airport base station

6

base station antenna

18

microsoft base station

5

cb base station

16

base station transmitter

5

airport base station

16

base station transceiver

4

cb base station radio

14

gps base station

3

wireless base station

12

application base station

3

microsoft wireless base station

12

base station uhf

3

gmrs base station

9

application base station vco

3

frs base station

7

gsm base station

3

radio base station

7

antenna base station vhf

3

audiovox frs base station

7

microsoft mn 500 wireless base station

2

base station cell phone

7

base station two way

2

2 base station way

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BASE STATION

Language Translations for "BASE STATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

基礎設施 (base installation). (various references)

   

Danish

  

basisstation (radio base station). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

basisstation (radio base station). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tukiasemajärjestelmä (base station system). (various references)

   

French

  

station terrestre de service mobile (radio base station), station de base pour réseaux mobiles (radio base station), station de base (radio base station), SB (radio base station). (various references)

   

German

  

Basisstation (a DECT fixed part contains the logical elements of at least one fixed radio termination, base station system, DECT fixed part, fixed part, plus additional implementation specific elements, radio base station), ortsfeste Landfunkstelle (radio base station), Funkfeststation (radio base station), Funkbasisstation (radio base station), Feststation (radio base station). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σταθμός βάσης (radio base station). (various references)

   

Italian

  

stazione di base (radio base station), stazione base per reti radiomobili (radio base station), stazione al suolo di base (radio base station). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

基地局 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

きちきょく. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

asebay ationstay

   

Portuguese

  

estação de base (radio base station). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

estación de base para redes móviles (radio base station), estación de base (radio base station), estación base (radio base station), EB (radio base station). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

basstationssystem (base station system). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BASE STATION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-i-n-o-s-s-t-t"

-2 letters: abattises, astatines, battiness, botanises, botanists, obstinate, sanitates.

-3 letters: abatises, abstains, antiboss, antsiest, astatine, astonies, basinets, bassinet, bastions, batistes, botanies, botanise, botanist, entasias, instates, nastiest, niobates, obeisant, sabatons, sanitate, satanist, satiates, satinets, stations, stoniest, titaness.

-4 letters: abattis, abioses, absents, abstain, anattos, atonies, attains, banties, basinet, basions, bastion, batiste, battens, bistate, boniest, bonitas, bonsais, entasia.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-i-n-o-s-s-t-t"
 

+3 letters: paleobotanists.

 

+4 letters: retinoblastomas, semiabstraction.

 

+5 letters: destabilizations, semiabstractions.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BASE STATION


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 41 53 45      53 54 41 54 49 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000001 01010011 01000101 00100000 01010011 01010100 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#83 &#69 &#32 &#83 &#84 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0053 0045      0053 0054 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36355339253543554434948

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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