1. n. (obsolete) The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
2. n. (astronomy) The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
3. n. A stopping place.
4. n. A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
The next station is Esperanza.
5. n. A ground transportation depot.
It's right across from the bus station.
6. n. A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
From my station at the front door, I greeted every visitor.
All ships are on station, Admiral.
7. n. (US) A gas station, service station.
8. n. A place where workers are stationed.
9. n. An official building from which police or firefighters operate.
The police station is opposite the fire station.
10. n. A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.
The waitress was at her station preparing three checks.
The station is part of a group of stations run by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
11. n. A military base.
She had a boyfriend at the station.
12. n. A place used for broadcasting radio or television.
I used to work at a radio station.
13. n. (Australia, New Zealand) A very large sheep or cattle farm.
14. n. One of the Stations of the Cross.
15. n. 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.
16. n. A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
17. n. Standing; rank; position.
She had ambitions beyond her station.
18. n. A broadcasting entity.
I used to listen to that radio station.
19. n. (Newfoundland) A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
20. n. (surveying) Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
21. n. The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
22. n. (mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
23. n. Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
24. n. (medicine) The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
25. v. To put in place to perform a task.
The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors.
26. v. To put in place to perform military duty.
They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out.
1. n. A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
2. n. A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
3. n. A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
4. n. A rate charged on all freight, regardless of distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service, as distinct from mileage rate, generally proportionate to the distance and intended to cov
5. n. A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
6. n. A storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) prior to further distribution.
7. n. (electronics) the end of a line where signals are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals are made available to apparatus.
8. n. An electric contact on a battery.
9. n. (telecommunications) The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
10. n. (computing) A device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.
11. n. (computing) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
12. n. (computing theory) A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
13. n. (biology) The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptid.
14. adj. Fatal; resulting in death.
terminal cancer
15. adj. Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
16. adj. Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time.
17. adj. (archaic) Occurring every term; termly.
a student's terminal fees
18. v. To store bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) in storage tanks prior to further distribution.
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