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
- A station for the changing of horses by stagecoach couriers
- 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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