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Station may refer to:

Agriculture

Communications

Geography

  • Gauging station, or stream gauge, 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, mostly in colonial Asia and Africa

Infrastructure

Military and government

Music, film, and entertainment

Places

Transport

Other uses

  • Station, a term for social status or official rank, based on one's position and prestige in society
  • Station, in childbirth, the position of the baby in the birth canal
  • Station of the Cross, in Western Christian churches, one of a series of depictions of Jesus on the day of his crucifixion

See also