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Traffic and infrastructure

Filling station
Filling station
A filling station, also known as a fueling station, garage, gasbar , gas station , petrol bunk , petrol pump , petrol garage, petrol kiosk , petrol station "'servo"' in Australia or service station, is a facility which sells fuel and lubricants...

, a gas (petrol) station
Power station
Power station
A power station is an industrial facility for the generation of electric energy....
Space station
Space station
A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew which is designed to remain in space for an extended period of time, and to which other spacecraft can dock. A space station is distinguished from other spacecraft used for human spaceflight by its lack of major propulsion or landing...
Transit station (disambiguation)
- Bus station
  Bus station
  A bus station is a structure where city or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers. It is larger than a bus stop, which is usually simply a place on the roadside, where buses can stop...
- Metro station
  Metro station
  A metro station or subway station is a railway station for a rapid transit system, often known by names such as "metro", "underground" and "subway". It is often underground or elevated. At crossings of metro lines, they are multi-level....
  
  , a transit rail station
- Train station
  Train station
  A train station, also called a railroad station or railway station and often shortened to just station,"Station" is commonly understood to mean "train station" unless otherwise qualified. This is evident from dictionary entries e.g...
  
  or railway station
- Train order station
Police station
Police station
A police station or station house is a building which serves to accommodate police officers and other members of staff. These buildings often contain offices and accommodation for personnel and vehicles, along with locker rooms, temporary holding cells and interview/interrogation rooms.- Facilities...
Chaining station or chainage
Relay station in a courier
Courier
A courier is a person or a company who delivers messages, packages, and mail. Couriers are distinguished from ordinary mail services by features such as speed, security, tracking, signature, specialization and individualization of express services, and swift delivery times, which are optional for...

system
Station, a type of postal facility that is not a main post office, as defined by the United States Postal Service
United States Postal Service
The United States Postal Service is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for providing postal service in the United States...
Stations of the Cursus publicus
Cursus publicus
The cursus publicus was the state-run courier and transportation service of the Roman Empire, later inherited by the Byzantine Empire. It was created by Emperor Augustus to transport messages, officials, and tax revenues from one province to another...

, the courier system of the Roman Empire

Telecommunication

Broadcast station (disambiguation)
Broadcast station
A broadcast station may be:*a radio station*a television stationIt does not include radio networks or television networks.-See also:*Broadcasting*Broadcast network*Station...
- Radio station
  Radio station
  Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...
- Television station
  Television station
  A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
Earth station
Earth station
A ground station, earth station, or earth terminal is a terrestrial terminal station designed for extraplanetary telecommunication with spacecraft, and/or reception of radio waves from an astronomical radio source. Ground stations are located either on the surface of the Earth, or within Earth's...

Military

Naval air station
Naval Air Station
A Naval Air Station is a military airbase, and consists of a permanent land-based operations locations for the military aviation division of the relevant branch of their Navy...

, an airbase of the United States Navy
Royal Air Force station
Royal Naval Air Station
Station (frontier defensive structure)
Station (frontier defensive structure)
A Station was a defensible residence constructed on the American frontier during the early nineteenth century.Many of these structures were built on the Kentucky frontier in and around the Louisville area during the struggle with the British and Native Americans...
Military base
Military base
A military base is a facility directly owned and operated by or for the military or one of its branches that shelters military equipment and personnel, and facilitates training and operations. In general, a military base provides accommodations for one or more units, but it may also be used as a...

Agricultural

Station (Australian agriculture)
Station (Australian agriculture)
Station is the term for a large Australian landholding used for livestock production. It corresponds to the North American term ranch or South American estancia...

, a large Australian landholding used for livestock production
Station (New Zealand agriculture)
Station (New Zealand agriculture)
A station, in the context of New Zealand agriculture, is a large farm dedicated to the grazing of sheep and cattle. The use of the word for the farm or farm buildings date back to the mid-nineteenth century....

, a large New Zealand farm used for grazing by sheep and cattle

Computer networks

Station (networking)
Station (networking)
In IEEE 802.11 terminology, a station is a device that has the capability to use the 802.11 protocol. For example, a station may be a laptop, a desktop PC, PDA, access point or Wi-Fi phone. A STA may be fixed, mobile or portable...
- Primary station
  Primary station
  In a data communication network, the primary station is the station responsible for unbalanced control of a data link.The primary station generates commands and interprets responses, and is responsible for initialization of data and control information interchange, organization and control of data...
- Control station
- Slave station (disambiguation)
Workstation
Workstation
A workstation is a high-end microcomputer designed for technical or scientific applications. Intended primarily to be used by one person at a time, they are commonly connected to a local area network and run multi-user operating systems...

Locations

Gauging station, a location along a river or stream used for gauging or other measurements
Hill station
Hill station
A hill station is a town located at a higher elevation than the nearby plain or valley. The term was used mostly in colonial Asia , but also in Africa , for towns founded by European colonial rulers as refuges from the summer heat, up where temperatures are cooler...

, a town which is high enough to be relatively cool in summer
Station, California, former name of Laws, California
Laws, California
Laws is an unincorporated community in Inyo County, California.Laws is located northeast of Bishop on U.S. Route 6, towards the Nevada state line.-Geography:...

Music

Station (album)
Station (album)
Station is the second full-length album by the instrumental rock band Russian Circles, and was released on May 6, 2008. This is the band's second release and first with their new label, Suicide Squeeze.-Track listing:-Personnel:...

, by the band Russian Circles
"Stations", a song from the album Churn by the band Shihad

Religious

Station church, a church in which special services are held on specific days during Lent and Easter
Station days
Station days
Station days were days of fasting in the early Christian Church. The practice of keeping stations died out during the Avignon papacy, but it has been revived in the twentieth century by popes Leo XIII and John XXIII....

, days of specific liturgical practice in the Roman Catholic Church
Stations of the Cross
Stations of the Cross
Stations of the Cross refers to the depiction of the final hours of Jesus, and the devotion commemorating the Passion. The tradition as chapel devotion began with St...

, a Christian devotion and its associated images
Stations of the Exodus, the locations visited by the Israelites following their exodus from Egypt

Other uses

Station wagon
Station wagon
A station wagon is a body style variant of a sedan/saloon with its roof extended rearward over a shared passenger/cargo volume with access at the back via a third or fifth door , instead of a trunk lid...

, a vehicle body style
Diplomatic mission
Diplomatic mission
A diplomatic mission is a group of people from one state or an international inter-governmental organisation present in another state to represent the sending state/organisation in the receiving state...

or station, where a diplomatic/consular official (or mission) is posted
Station, term for social status
Social status
In sociology or anthropology, social status is the honor or prestige attached to one's position in society . It may also refer to a rank or position that one holds in a group, for example son or daughter, playmate, pupil, etc....

, prestige based on one's position in society
Station, in childbirth, the position of the baby in the birth canal

Traffic and infrastructure

Telecommunication

Military

Agricultural

Computer networks

Locations

Music

Religious

Other uses

See also