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n. (context computing English) The protocol layer that transfers data between adjacent network nodes in a wide area network or between nodes on the same local area network segment.
Usage examples of "datalink".
The second-wave monitors refitted with the new datalink systems were pulled from the assault queue, but the fifteen more expendable monitors still equipped with the old-style datalink moved to the front, accompanied by seventy-six, battlecruisers, eighteen light cruisers, and all of the new ramming ships.
Not of surprise—it was a given that the Bugs realized how much their cruder datalink hurt them and were working to redress the balance—but at the thought of losing their greatest advantage in a missile engagement.
Sometimes our datalinks can be a bit too enthusiastic in their pursuit of their duties.
He placed his sensors Vttffefully, as carefully as he had in the larger ship, and 4$lkl his probe into the datalinks very delicately indeed.
Eight enjoyed playing games with the datalinks also, especially Garold, who never seemed to realize that he was a player.
He placed his sensors carefully, as carefully as he had in the larger ship, and linked his probe into the datalinks very delicately indeed.
He placed his sensors carefully, as carefully as he had in the larger ship, and 4$lkl his probe into the datalinks very delicately indeed.
ECM2, or "jamming ECM," serves to jam or break up enemy datalinks within relatively short range of the system.
Check through it and see if there were any unexplained datalinks established on Thursday night or Friday morning.
We have to cut the downlinks to our attack birds to free up the tracking and datalinks to deal with the damned battlecruiser!
Instead of outright kills, we concentrate on knocking down their datalink, then the battle-line pounds them with standard missiles from outside effective energy range and closes with the fighters in tight, like Admiral Murakuma did in Leonidas, and kicks their guts out from the inside.
Some were best at milking the mass-service food processors without detection and some had a knack for tapping into the datalinks.
Datalinked with the innermost planet's massive space station and its attendant orbital fortresses, the Deep Space Force might have been in a good position against an enemy bereft of those troublesome missile pods.
One of the things fighter jocks hated most about command datalink was the way that it permitted other units of a battlegroup to pour defensive fire into the blind zones of their group mates.
Their mechanoids had ploughed the ground up around each building, installing water and sewage pipes, power lines, and datalinks.