Station
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Station can refer to:
- Station (telecommunication)
- 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').
- A Hill station is a town in India which is high enough to be relatively cool in summer.
- 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, a 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".
- The Stations (irish custom), was the custom during the period English proscriptions against Catholicism of gathering in homes for mass and socialising.
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