workstation

workstation

See also: work station

English

Etymology

From work +‎ station.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

workstation (plural workstations)

1. a desktop computer, normally more powerful than a normal PC and often dedicated to a specific task, such as graphics
   • 2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and pleasure on the Far North Line: Radio Electronic Token Block”, in RAIL, number 942, page 48:

     All train movements on the Far North Line have been controlled by a Radio Electronic Token Block workstation at Inverness since 1995, having already been introduced on the Kyle Line some 11 years earlier.

2. an area, at a workplace, for a single worker
   • 2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 299:

     Lamb ignored her, surveying her team instead, who were at their own or each other's workstations, and engrossed in their current tasks, and studying every move he made.

Synonyms

• (workplace): workstead

Translations

powerful desktop computer

Azerbaijani: iş stansiyası Catalan: estació de treball f Chinese: Mandarin: 工作站 (zh) (gōngzuòzhàn) Czech: pracovní stanice f Estonian: tööjaam (et) Finnish: työasema French: station de travail f German: Workstation (de) f Greek: σταθμός εργασίας m (stathmós ergasías) Italian: workstation (it) f Japanese: ワークステーション (wākusutēshon) Korean: 워크스테이션 (wokeuseuteisyeon) Norwegian: Bokmål: arbeidsstasjon m Nynorsk: arbeidsstasjon m Polish: stacja robocza f Portuguese: workstation (pt) f, estação de trabalho (pt) f Russian: рабо́чая ста́нция f (rabóčaja stáncija) Spanish: estación de trabajo f Turkish: workstation

area for single worker

Estonian: töökoht (et) Finnish: työpiste (fi) French: poste de travail (fr) m Georgian: სამუშაო სივრცე (samušao sivrce), სამუშაო ადგილი (samušao adgili) German: Arbeitsplatz (de) m Greek: χώρος εργασίας m (chóros ergasías), γραφείο (el) n (grafeío) Italian: postazione (it) f Maori: taupuni mahi Russian: рабо́чее ме́сто (ru) n (rabóčeje mésto)

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English workstation.

Noun

workstation f (plural workstations)

1. (computing) workstation (powerful desktop computer)

   Synonym: estação de trabalho