base station

noun

1. a unit functioning as a transmitter and receiver of broadcasting or other signals, as in connection with a CB radio or mobile phone.

base station

noun

1. a fixed transmitter that forms part of an otherwise mobile radio network

Example Sentences

The phone itself would not be of much use without cellular base stations and all the network infrastructure that is behind them.

From Singularity Hub 

The first mobile phone services used small numbers of large radio towers, which meant that all the subscribers in a big city shared one central base station.

From Singularity Hub 

Now, however, Alexa comes built into the Blast and Megablast, and UE introduced a base station to convert the speaker into an always-on device like the Amazon Echo.

From Popular-Science

The test kit includes a swab, a tube of purple chemicals, and a small battery-operated base station.

From MIT Technology Review

After swabbing your nose, you stir the swab in the tube and then then click it into place in the base station.

From MIT Technology Review

FitBark, available for preorder ($69 for one device, $109 for one device and a base station), is more of a community device.

From The Daily Beast