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download vt.
To transfer data or (esp.) code from a
larger `host' system (esp. a mainframe) over a digital
comm link to a smaller `client' system, esp. a microcomputer
or specialized peripheral. Oppose upload.
However, note that ground-to-space communications has its own usage
rule for this term. Space-to-earth transmission is always `down'
and the reverse `up' regardless of the relative size of the
computers involved. So far the in-space machines have invariably
been smaller; thus the upload/download distinction has been
reversed from its usual sense.
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