telestation

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English

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Etymology

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From tele- +‎ station.

Noun

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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 []