Stations

sta·tion  (stshn)

n.

1.

a. A place or position where a person or thing stands or is assigned to stand; a post: a sentry station.

b. An area where a person is assigned to work.

2. The place, building, or establishment from which a service is provided or operations are directed: a police station.

3. A stopping place along a route, especially a stop for refueling or for taking on passengers; a depot.

4. Social position; rank: "He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers" (Charles Dickens).

5. An establishment equipped for observation and study: a radar station.

6.

a. An establishment equipped for radio or television transmission.

b. One that broadcasts radio or television transmissions: the views in this program do not necessarily reflect those of the station.

c. A frequency assigned to a broadcaster.

7. An input or output point along a communications system.

8. A precise point from which measurements in surveying are made.

9. Ecology

a. The normal habitat of a particular plant or animal community.

b. The exact place of occurrence of a species or individual within a given habitat.

10. Station Roman Catholic Church Any of the 14 Stations of the Cross.

tr.v. sta·tioned, sta·tion·ing, sta·tions

To assign to a position; post.

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[Middle English stacioun, from Old French station, from Latin stati, statin-; see st- in Indo-European roots.]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

Stations - (Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary Stations of the Cross devotion - (usually plural) religious observance or prayers (usually spoken silently); "he returned to his devotions" plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one Church of Rome, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church, Roman Catholic - the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy series - similar things placed in order or happening one after another; "they were investigating a series of bank robberies"