workstation
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
workstation (plural workstations)
- (computing) 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.
- 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
Derived terms
Translations
powerful desktop computer
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area for single worker
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Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English workstation.
Pronunciation
Noun
workstation f (plural workstations)
- (computing) workstation (powerful desktop computer)
- Synonym: estação de trabalho