relay station

Questions about relay station

What does relay station mean?

relay station means "an amplifier for restoring the strength of a transmitted signal".

What is another word for relay station?

Close synonyms include booster, booster amplifier, booster station, relay link, relay transmitter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is relay station a common word?

relay station is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.