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communications satellite
Relay station in space for sending telephone, television, telex, and other messages around the world.
Messages are sent to and from the satellites via ground stations. Most communications satellites are in geostationary orbit, appearing to hang fixed over one point on the earth's surface.
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Astronomy and related astronomical terms
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The transfer of information among groups of individuals of a kind that cannot be transmitted from a single individual to another: Examples of mass communication include the spatial organization of army ant raids, the regulation of numbers of worker ants on odor trails, and certain aspects of the thermoregulation of nests.
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Ant and Related Entomology Terms
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Correspondence that influences the behavior of receivers: Modulatory communication does not take place by forcing recipients into narrowly defined behavioral channels but by slightly shifting the probabilities of the performances of other behavioral acts.
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Ant and Related Entomology Terms
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