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Noun: downlink  'dawn,lingk
  1. Transmission of a signal from a satellite to a receiving station on earth (or the means of this transmission)
    "The satellite's downlink provided crucial weather data to meteorologists"
     
  2. Transmission of data from a wireless network to the user
    "The slow downlink speed made it difficult to stream high-quality videos"
Verb: downlink  'dawn,lingk
  1. Trasmit a signal to earth from a satellite
    "The spacecraft began to downlink images of the distant planet"

Derived forms: downlinks, downlinking, downlinked

Encyclopedia: Downlink