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☆ Tel·star (tel′stär′)

noun

either of two experimental communications satellites used between July 10, 1962, and May, 1965, to amplify and relay various signals, esp. television, across the oceans

Etymology: tel(e)- + star

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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