(communications) A land station, in the land mobile service, carrying on a service with land mobile stations (a base station may secondarily communicate with other base stations incident to communications with land mobile stations). A station in a land mobile system which remains in a fixed location and communicates with the mobile stations.
(engineering) The point from which a survey begins.
(geodesy) A geographic position whose absolute gravity value is known.

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