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microstation en · NOUN

Etymology

From micro- + station.

Meanings

1. A small networked computer with limited capabilities.
   • Each message contains an address field that identifies the microstation for which the message is intended. All microstations receive the TDM stream and filter out the messages not intended for their own use. 2018, Rafael Osso, Handbook of Emerging Communications Technologies: The Next Decade, →ISBN:
   • The tables that held their three Sun microstations were made from doors bought at a hardware store. 2010, Marsha Collier, The Ultimate Online Customer Service Guide, →ISBN:
   • As regards satellite data service networks, Alcatel offers FASTAR consisting of a hub which can manage thousands of easily installable microstations, easily portable and spread over user sites. 1991, Electrical Communication - Volume 65, Issues 1-3, page 90:
2. Synonym of microbroadcaster.
   • If the FCC is so concerned about chaos on the airwaves, radio activists asked, then why didn't it simply allocate a section of the broadcast spectrum for microstations and then issue licenses? 2018, David Croteau, William Hoynes, Media/Society: Technology, Industries, Content, and Users, →ISBN, page 119:
   • "The obstacle course that the F.C.C. has established for licensing full-power commercial broadcasters is so daunting and overwhelming,” writes Lou Hiken, “that no microstation could ever pass muster in that context. It is as if the government demanded that mothers taking splinters out of their childrens'^([sic]) fingers comply with the regulatory requirements for an institution engaging in heart surgery." 2011, Greg Ruggiero, Microradio & Democracy: (Low) Power to the People, →ISBN:
   • Freedom Forum's Paul McMasters calls microstation operators "the broadcast equivalent of the old anonymous pamphleteers or alternative newspapers." 2005, Robert L. Hilliard, Michael C. Keith, The quieted voice: the rise and demise of localism in American radio, page 196:

Forms

Synonyms

microbroadcaster