Station

Station (from Latin statio) commonly refers to:

• Bus station A bus station is a structure where city or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers. It is larger than a bus stop, which is usually simply a place on the sidewalk, where buses can stop. It may be intended as a terminal station for a number of routes, or as a transfer station where the routes continue. The largest bus station in the a station for buses.
• Metro station A metro station is a railway station for a rapid transit system, often known by names such as "metro", "underground" and "subway". It is often underground or elevated. At crossings of metro lines, they are multi-level a metro or subway station in a city.
• Train station A train station (commonly station,[note 1] railway station (mainly British Commonwealth) or railroad station) is a railway facility where trains regularly stop to load or unload passengers or freight (goods). It generally consists of a platform next to the tracks and a building (depot) providing related services such as ticket sales and waiting a station for railway or railroad trains.

Station may also refer to:

• Social status In sociology or anthropology, social status is the honor or prestige attached to one's position in society . It may also refer to a rank or position that one holds in a group, for example son or daughter, playmate, pupil, etc
• Chaining station or chainage
• a relay station in a courier A courier is a person or a company employed to deliver messages, packages and mail. Couriers are distinguished from ordinary mail services by features such as speed, security, tracking, signature, specialization and individualization of services, and committed delivery times, which are optional for most everyday mail services. As a premium service, system
• cursus publicus The cursus publicus was the state-run courier and transportation service of the Roman Empire, later inherited by the Byzantine Empire. It was created by Emperor Augustus to transport messages, officials, and tax revenues from one province to another. The service was still fully functioning in the first half of the sixth century in the Byzantine (Roman Empire)
• Station, California, former name of Laws, California
• a type of postal facility that is not a main post office; term explained in United States Postal Service The United States Postal Service is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for providing postal service in the United States. It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution. Within the United States, it is commonly referred to as the "Post Office", "Postal
• Station (Australian agriculture) Station is the term for a large Australian landholding used for livestock production. It corresponds to the North American term 'ranch' or South American Estancia. The owner of a station is called a grazier, a large Australian landholding used for livestock production
• Station (New Zealand agriculture), a large New Zealand farm used for grazing by sheep and cattle
• Fire station A fire station is a structure or other area set aside for storage of firefighting apparatus (i.e., fire engines and related vehicles), personal protective equipment, fire hose, fire extinguishers, and other fire extinguishing equipment. It may also have dormitory living facilities and work areas such as meeting rooms, workshop, or laundry. Living
• Gauging station, a location along a river or stream used for gaging or other measurements
• Hill station is a town in India which is high enough to be relatively cool in summer
• diplomatic mission A diplomatic mission is a group of people from one state or an international inter-governmental organization present in another state to represent the sending state/organization in the receiving state. In practice, a diplomatic mission usually denotes the permanent mission, namely the office of a country's diplomatic representatives in the capital or station, where a diplomatic/consular official (or mission) is posted
• Stations of the Cross Stations of the Cross refers to the depiction of the final hours (or Passion) of Jesus, and the devotion commemorating the Passion. The tradition as chapel devotion began with St. Francis of Assisi and extended throughout the Roman Catholic Church in the medieval period. It is less often observed in the Anglican and Lutheran churches. It may be refer to a Christian devotion and its associated images
• In childbirth Childbirth is the culmination of a human pregnancy or gestation period with the birth of one or more newborn infants from a woman's uterus. The process of normal human childbirth is categorized in three stages of labour: the shortening and dilation of the cervix, descent and birth of the infant, and birth of the placenta. In many cases, with, "station of labor" refers to the position of a baby in the birth canal, ranging from -4 to +4. A reading of 0 means that the baby is 'engaged' and labor has started.
• A desk A desk is a furniture form and a class of table often used in a work or office setting for reading or writing on or using a computer. Desks often have one or more drawers to store office supplies and papers. Unlike a regular table, usually only one side of a desk is suitable to sit on . Not all desks have the form of a table. For instance, an with permanent fixtures - e.g. one might describe the desk that a supervisor sits at in a power station control room as a 'station'
• Station is the second full-length album by the instrumental rock band Russian Circles
• Stations, a song, second single from New Zealand and Shihad's debut album Churn
• The Station, a nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island, United States, that burned down in 2003 killing 100 people
• Station days day of specific liturgical practice in the Roman Catholic Church The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with more than a billion members. The Church's leader is the Pope who holds supreme authority in concert with the College of Bishops of which he is the head. A communion of the Western church and 22 autonomous Eastern Catholic churches (called

Traffic and infrastructure

• Filling station A filling station, gas station, fueling station, service station, petrol station, garage, gasbar, petrol pump or petrol bunk is a facility which sells fuel and lubricants for motor vehicles. The most common fuels sold are petrol (known as gasoline in Canada and the U.S.) or diesel fuel, gas station or petrol station
• Power station A power station is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power
• Space station To date, only low earth orbital stations have been implemented, otherwise known as orbital stations. A space station is distinguished from other manned spacecraft by its lack of major propulsion or landing facilities—instead, other vehicles are used as transport to and from the station. Current and recent-history space stations are designed for
• Transit station:
  • Bus station A bus station is a structure where city or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers. It is larger than a bus stop, which is usually simply a place on the sidewalk, where buses can stop. It may be intended as a terminal station for a number of routes, or as a transfer station where the routes continue. The largest bus station in the
  • Metro station A metro station is a railway station for a rapid transit system, often known by names such as "metro", "underground" and "subway". It is often underground or elevated. At crossings of metro lines, they are multi-level (underground or elevated )
  • Train station A train station (commonly station,[note 1] railway station (mainly British Commonwealth) or railroad station) is a railway facility where trains regularly stop to load or unload passengers or freight (goods). It generally consists of a platform next to the tracks and a building (depot) providing related services such as ticket sales and waiting or Railway station (British English)
  • Train order station Train order operation is a system by which the railroads of North America conveyed operating instructions before the days of centralized traffic control, direct traffic control, and the use of track warrants conveyed by radio
• Police station A police station or station house is a building which serves to accommodate police officers and other members of staff. These buildings often contain offices and accommodation for personnel and vehicles, along with locker rooms, temporary holding cells and interview/interrogation rooms
• Station manager, airline terminology for the head airline manager at an airport the airline operates at

Military

• Naval air station, an airbase of the United States Navy
• Royal Air Force station A Royal Air Force station is a permanent Royal Air Force operations location. Many RAF stations are aerodromes, or airbases, being the home to one or more flying squadrons. Other RAF stations are training units, administrative units, headquarters , or carry out ground-based operational tasks. Although many RAF units are often called stations, they
• Royal Naval Air Station The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of HM Armed Forces . From the beginning of the 18th century until well into the 20th century it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s. In World War II the Royal Navy operated almost
• station (frontier defensive structure)
• more generally a military base A military base is a facility directly owned and operated by and/or for the military or one of its branches that shelters military equipment and personnel, and facilitates training and operations, meaning the infrastructure and the personnel there being stationed there
• Station - a designated patrol area at sea or in the air

Telecommunication

• Broadcast station
  • Radio station Radio broadcasting is an audio broadcasting service, broadcast through the air as radio waves (a form of electromagnetic radiation) from a transmitter to a receiving antenna. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast common programming, either in syndication or simulcast or both. Audio broadcasting also can be done via cable FM, local
  • Television station A television station is a type of broadcast station that broadcasts video and usually audio to television receivers in a particular area. Traditionally, TV stations made their broadcasts by sending specially-encoded radio signals over the air, called terrestrial television. Individual television stations are usually granted licenses by a
• Earth station An earth station, ground station, or earth terminal is a terrestrial terminal station designed for extraplanetary telecommunication with spacecraft, and/or reception of radio waves from an astronomical radio source. Earth stations are located either on the surface of the Earth, or within Earth's atmosphere. Earth stations communicate with

Computer networks

• Station (networking)
  • Primary station In a data communication network, the primary station is the station responsible for unbalanced control of a data link
  • Control station
  • Slave station
• Workstation A workstation is a high-end microcomputer designed for technical or scientific applications. Intended primarily to be used by one person at a time, they are commonly connected to a local area network and run multi-user operating systems. The term workstation has also been used to refer to a mainframe computer terminal or a PC connected to a

See also

• Station Chief
• Station church, a church in which special services are held an specific days during Lent and Easter
• Stationery Stationery has historically meant a wide gamut of materials: paper and office supplies, writing implements, greeting cards, glue, pencil case etc
• Stations of the Exodus, list of the locations visited by the Israelites following their exodus from Egypt
• Station.com, Sony Online Entertainment game portal
• Station.ch, Webdesign and communication agency based in Zurich Switzerland
• Station wagon A station wagon is a passenger car body style similar in terms of passengers to the sedan/saloon style but incorporating a full-size back cargo compartment accessible via a fifth door instead of the standard sedan trunk slot. Station wagons are not to be confused with hatchbacks, whose difference lies in the size of the said compartment, with, a vehicle body style

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