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Definition: Outstation |
OutstationNoun1. A station in a remote or sparsely populated location. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | A location which provides local monitoring and control, and provides a communications interface between a sensor and the trunk connected to acentral station computer. Also called field data station. (references) |
Post & Telecom | A station which is monitored or commanded and monitored by a master station. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: OutstationSynonym: outpost (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: controlled station (post & telecom), remote station. |
Crosswords: Outstation |
| Specialty definitions using "outstation": refreshment time ♦ updating time. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Outstation (1968) | |
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| "Outstation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Outstation" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bms outstation panel | 6 |
bus outstation | 4 |
outstation | 2 |
bms controller outstation panel | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "outstation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | Gegenstation (Tel.), Außenstation. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | távoli állomás. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | outstationay utpost (outpost). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "outstation": outstations. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-n-o-o-s-t-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: ostinato, titanous. | |
-3 letters: station, tattoos. | |
-4 letters: outsat, outsin, outsit, stotin, taints, tanist, tattoo, taunts, titans, tuttis. | |
-5 letters: antis, aunts, autos, iotas, ostia, ottos, saint, santo, satin, snoot, snout, stain, stint, stoai, stoat, stout, stunt, suint, sutta, tains, taint, tanto, taunt, tauts, tints, titan, toast, toits, tonus, toons, toots, touts, tunas, tutti, unais, units. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-n-o-o-s-t-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: outstations. | |
+2 letters: ostentatious. | |
+3 letters: autorotations. | |
+4 letters: constitutional, ostentatiously, postamputation, unostentatious. | |
+5 letters: automatizations, constitutionals, poststimulation. | |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- ..- - ... - .- - .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01110101 01110100 01110011 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O u t s t a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0075 0074 0073 0074 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)49878685866786758180 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | deutsch, Deutsche, német, tysk |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | Ungar, magyar, ungrare |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | schwedisch, svéd, svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch, angol, engelsk |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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