Relay (disambiguation)
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A relay is an electronic component; a form of switch.
Relay may also refer to:
In communication
- Generally, a connection between the stations of a message-forwarding or transportation system
Historical
- Stage station, a relay (or relais de poste) or stop or post for the changing of spent for fresh horses to draw stagecoaches or other vehicles. Also for horses to be ridden by individuals, couriers or mail carriers
- Cursus publicus, a courier-service in the Roman Empire
- Relay league, a chain of message-forwarding stations
Modern
Internet
- Bitnet Relay, an online chat-system on the BITNET
- Mail relay, a server used for forwarding e-mail, usually by SMTP
- Open mail relay, such a server that can be used by anyone
- Relay bot, a specific type of Internet Relay Chat bot which is used to relay messages between separate IRC networks
Other communication channels
- Relay (satellite), a communications satellite
- Broadcast relay station, a broadcast transmitter which repeats or transponds the signal of another
- Microwave radio relay, technology for message-forwarding
- Relay channel, a model of communication between a sender and a receiver aided by one or more intermediate relay nodes
- Telecommunications Relay Service, a telephone accessibility service for the deaf
- Repeater, a device that re-transmits signals from one station to another
Automobiles
- Citroën Relay, a marketing version of the Citroën Jumper van
- Saturn Relay, a minivan produced from 2005-07 by Saturn Corporation
Other uses
- Relay (shop), a France-based chain of convenience stores
- Relay (song), a 1972 song by The Who
- Relay bid, a kind of artificial bid in contract bridge
- Relay race, a race completed in parts by several participants of a team sequentially
See also
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