Station
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Station may refer to:
[edit] Traffic and infrastructure
- Filling station, a gas (petrol) station
- Power station
- Space station
- Transit station (disambiguation)
- Bus station
- Metro station, a transit rail station
- Train station or railway station
- Train order station
- Police station
- Chaining station or chainage
- Relay station in a courier system
- Station, a type of postal facility that is not a main post office, as defined by the United States Postal Service
- Stations of the Cursus publicus, the courier system of the Roman Empire
[edit] Telecommunication
[edit] Military
- Naval air station, an airbase of the United States Navy
- Royal Air Force station
- Royal Canadian Air Force station
- Royal Naval Air Station
- Station (frontier defensive structure)
- Military base
[edit] Agricultural
- Station (Australian agriculture), a large Australian landholding used for livestock production
- Station (New Zealand agriculture), a large New Zealand farm used for grazing by sheep and cattle
[edit] Computer networks
[edit] Locations
- Gauging station, a location along a river or stream used for gauging or other measurements
- Hill station, a town which is high enough to be relatively cool in summer
- Station, California, former name of Laws, California
- La Station, a community centre in Montreal, originally designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
[edit] Music
- Station (album), by the band Russian Circles
- "Stations", a song from the album Churn by the band Shihad
[edit] Religious
- Station church, a church in which special services are held on specific days during Lent and Easter
- Station days, days of specific liturgical practice in the Roman Catholic Church
- Stations of the Cross, a Christian devotion and its associated images
- Stations of the Exodus, the locations visited by the Israelites following their exodus from Egypt
[edit] Other uses
- Station wagon, a vehicle body style
- Diplomatic mission or station, where a diplomatic/consular official (or mission) is posted
- Station, term for social status, prestige based on one's position in society
- Station, in childbirth, the position of the baby in the birth canal
[edit] See also
- Station Chief
- Stationery
- Station.com, Sony Online Entertainment game portal
- The Station nightclub fire
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