station

Definitions

• A stopping place.
• A place where workers are stationed.
• (Christianity) Any of the Stations of the Cross.
• (Christianity) The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
• (Christianity) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
• Standing; rank; position.
• A broadcasting entity.
• (Newfoundland) A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
• (surveying) Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
• The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
• (mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
• Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
• (medicine) The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
• (obsolete) The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
• (astronomy) The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.