Usually means: Communication link from ground to satellite.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word uplink:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. uplink: Merriam-Webster
  2. uplink: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. uplink: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. uplink: Collins English Dictionary
  5. uplink: Vocabulary.com
  6. Uplink, uplink: Wordnik
  7. uplink: Wiktionary
  8. uplink: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. uplink: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. uplink: Dictionary.com
  11. Uplink (computer game), Uplink (disambiguation), Uplink (video game), Uplink: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. uplink: Rhymezone
  13. uplink: FreeDictionary.org
  14. uplink: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. uplink: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. uplink: Netlingo
  2. uplink: CCI Computer
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. uplink: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. uplink: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. uplink: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)

(Note: See uplinking as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  Data transmission from a data station to the headend.
verb:  To transmit a signal by means of an uplink.

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