[{"word":"uplinks","phonetics":[],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"The portion of a communications link used for the transmission of signals from an Earth terminal to a satellite or to an airborne platform. An uplink is the converse of a downlink. An uplink or downlink is distinguished from reverse link or forward link.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(by analogy, less formally) The communication path from a mobile device to a base station, a consumer to the network backbone, a client device to a server etc.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Data transmission from a data station to the headend.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":["downlink"]},{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To transmit a signal by means of an uplink.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":["downlink"]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/uplink","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/uplinks"]}]