Station

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Station can refer to:

• Station (special word)
• Station (telecommunication)
  • Radio station
  • Television station
• Station (network)
  • Primary station
  • Control station
  • Slave station
• Station (Australian agriculture) (the Australian equivalent of the North American Ranch)
• Public transport
  • railway station or train station
  • Train order station
  • metro station (underground or elevated )
  • bus station
• Fire station
• Ground station
• Space station
• A filling station, gas station or petrol station
• Power station (see Battersea Power Station)
• Work station
• Military
  • RAF station or Royal Naval Air Station
  • more generally a military base, meaning the infrastructure and the personnel there being stationed there
• diplomatic station where a diplomatic/consular official (or mission) is posted ('stationed').
• Stations of the Cross refer to a Christian devotion and its associated images
• a type of postal facility that is not a main post office; term explained in United States Postal Service
• Stations (song), second single from New Zealand and Shihad's debut album Churn.
• The Station, a nightclub that burned down in 2003 killing 100 people
  
• A desk with permanent fixtures - e.g. one might describe the desk that a supervisor sits at in a power station control room as a 'station'.
• In former times in the western world, a culturally understood level of standing in society, leading to the phrase "getting ideas above ones station".
• In Ireland in country areas there is a tradition of having a mass in the house going back to times when the Penal Laws operated to restrict Catholic cermonies. This mass and the later socialising is known as the Stations

[edit] See also

• Station chief
• Stationery
• The Station nightclub fire
• Wiktionary:station
• Nutstation

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