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uplinks

uplinks is the plural of uplink.

uplinks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of uplink.

Meaning of uplink

Noun

uplink (plural uplinks)

  1. The portion of a communications link used for the transmission of signals from a ground station to a satellite or to an airborne platform.
    Antonyms:
    downlink
  2. (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.
  3. Data transmission from a data station to the headend.

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Questions about uplinks

What is uplinks the plural of?
Uplinks is the plural of uplink.

Words near uplinks in the dictionary

  1. Uplinger
  2. Uplingers
  3. uplink
  4. uplinked
  5. uplinking
  6. uplinks
  7. uplist
  8. uplisted
  9. uplisting
  10. uplistings
  11. uplists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uplinks (page history and authors); uplink (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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