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sta⋅tion

  [stey-shuhn]
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–noun
1. a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
2. a stopping place for trains or other land conveyances, for the transfer of freight or passengers.
3. the building or buildings at such a stopping place.
4. the district or municipal headquarters of certain public services: police station; fire station; postal station.
5. a place equipped for some particular kind of work, service, research, or the like: gasoline station; geophysical station.
6. the position, as of persons or things, in a scale of estimation, rank, or dignity; standing: the responsibility of persons of high station.
7. a position, office, rank, calling, or the like.
8. Radio and Television.
a. a studio or building from which broadcasts originate.
b. a person or organization originating and broadcasting messages or programs.
c. a specific frequency or band of frequencies assigned to a regular or special broadcaster: Tune to the Civil Defense station.
d. the complete equipment used in transmitting and receiving broadcasts.
9. Military.
a. a military place of duty.
b. a semipermanent army post.
10. Navy. a place or region to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty.
11. (formerly in India) the area in which the British officials of a district or the officers of a garrison resided.
12. Biology. a particular area or type of region where a given animal or plant is found.
13. Australian. a ranch with its buildings, land, etc., esp. for raising sheep.
14. Surveying.
a. Also called instrument station, set-up. a point where an observation is taken.
b. a precisely located reference point.
c. a length of 100 ft. (30 m) along a survey line.
15. a section or area assigned to a waiter, soldier, etc.; post: The waiter says this isn't his station.
16. stations of the cross.
17. Archaic. the fact or condition of standing still.
–verb (used with object)
18. to assign a station to; place or post in a station or position.
Origin:
1350–1400; < L statiōn- (s. of statiō) a standing still, standing-place, equiv. to stat(us) (ptp. of stāre to stand ) + -iōn- -ion; r. ME stacioun < AF < L, as above

Related forms:
sta⋅tion⋅al, adjective

Synonyms:
1. situation, location. 3. depot, terminal. 7. metier, occupation, trade, business, employment. 15. See appointment. 18. position, locate, establish, set, fix.
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sta·tion   (stā'shən)   
n.  

    1. A place or position where a person or thing stands or is assigned to stand; a post: a sentry station.

    2. An area where a person is assigned to work.

    3. An establishment equipped for radio or television transmission.

    4. One that broadcasts radio or television transmissions: the views in this program do not necessarily reflect those of the station.

    5. A frequency assigned to a broadcaster.

    6. The normal habitat of a particular plant or animal community.

    7. The exact place of occurrence of a species or individual within a given habitat.

  2. The place, building, or establishment from which a service is provided or operations are directed: a police station.

  3. A stopping place along a route, especially a stop for refueling or for taking on passengers; a depot.

  4. Social position; rank: "He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers" (Charles Dickens).

  5. An establishment equipped for observation and study: a radar station.

    1. An establishment equipped for radio or television transmission.

    2. One that broadcasts radio or television transmissions: the views in this program do not necessarily reflect those of the station.

    3. A frequency assigned to a broadcaster.

    4. The normal habitat of a particular plant or animal community.

    5. The exact place of occurrence of a species or individual within a given habitat.

  7. An input or output point along a communications system.

  8. A precise point from which measurements in surveying are made.

  9. Ecology

    1. The normal habitat of a particular plant or animal community.

    2. The exact place of occurrence of a species or individual within a given habitat.

  10. Station Roman Catholic Church Any of the 14 Stations of the Cross.

tr.v.   sta·tioned, sta·tion·ing, sta·tions
To assign to a position; post.

[Middle English stacioun, from Old French station, from Latin statiō, statiōn-; see stā- in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

station 
c.1280, "place which one normally occupies," from O.Fr. station, from L. stationem (nom. statio) "a standing, post, job, position," related to stare "to stand," from PIE base *sta- "to stand" (see stet). The meaning "place for a special purpose" (e.g. polling station) is first recorded 1823; radio station is from 1912. The meaning "regular stopping place" is first recorded 1797, in reference to coach routes; applied to railroads 1830. Meaning "each of a number of holy places visited in succession by pilgrims" is from c.1380, hence Station of the Cross (1553). The verb meaning "to assign a post or position to" is attested from 1748. Station wagon in the automobile sense is first recorded 1929, from earlier use for a horse-drawn conveyance that took passengers to and from railroad stations (1894). Station house "police station" is attested from 1836.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: sta·tion
Pronunciation: 'stA-sh&n
Function: noun
1 : the place at which someone is positioned or is assigned to remain station on a hospital ward>
2 : the act or manner of standing : POSTURE<station was unsteady with the eyes open or closed —Diseases of the Nervous System>
3 : a place established to provide a service —see AID STATION
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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