comsat

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Noun

comsat (plural comsats)

1. A communications satellite.
   • 1967, Arthur Charles Clarke, The Coming of the Space Age:

     Once a comsat is built, its traffic-handling capacity can be utilized […]

   • 1977, New Scientist:

     […] educating farmers and schoolchildren, according to the social scientists studying it, are sufficient reasons in themselves to purchase a comsat.

   • 1998, Ian Douglas, Semper Mars:

     The suborbital, though, had a direct feed to a comsat, and the channel ought to be secure.

Anagrams

• Mascot, catoms, comast, mascot