station
Station (lat. Statio , stand [ort] ',' stay ') means:
- the stop in public traffic
- a train station or stop on the railway, see train station
- for mountain railways the valley, mountain or middle station, see mountain railway station
- in shipping, the ship's station, the landing stage
- in the historical postal system a relay station where the riders and horses were changed, see post office
- in German road construction the location of the kilometering (stationing), see station sign
- an organizational unit in the hospital, see bed ward , intensive care unit , palliative care unit
- an infirmary in a non-medical facility
- a living area in the nursing home
- a water rescue station in the rescue service
- in scientific field research the research station
- in space travel a habitable spacecraft, the space station
- in radio systems a receiving or transmitting system, radio station, see radio station
- a type of site in the archeology of prehistory, see storage site
- a settlement in colonialism, see mission station
- a place of worship, see Statio
- a ski station , i.e. a uniformly designed ski resort, especially in France
See also:
- List of all Wikipedia articles whose title begins with station
- List of all Wikipedia articles whose title contains Station
Wiktionary: Station - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
