workstation

See also: work station

English

Etymology

From work +‎ station.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɝkˌsteɪʃən/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

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workstation

Wikipedia

workstation (plural workstations)

1. (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.

2. An area, at a workplace, for a single worker.

   Hypernyms: station, area, place

   Holonyms: workplace, workstead

   Near-synonym: workspace

   • 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

• digital audio workstation

Translations

powerful desktop computer

Arabic: مَحَطَّة عَمَل f (maḥaṭṭat ʕamal) Azerbaijani: iş stansiyası Belarusian: рабо́чая ста́нцыя f (rabóčaja stáncyja) Bulgarian: рабо́тна ста́нция f (rabótna stáncija) Catalan: estació de treball f Chinese: Cantonese: 工作站 (gung1 zok3 zaam6) Mandarin: 工作站 (zh) (gōngzuòzhàn) Czech: pracovní stanice f Danish: arbejdsstation c Dutch: werkstation (nl) n Estonian: tööjaam (et) Finnish: työasema French: station de travail f German: Workstation (de) f Greek: σταθμός εργασίας m (stathmós ergasías) Hungarian: munkaállomás (hu) Icelandic: vinnustöð f Irish: stáisiún oibre m Italian: workstation (it) f, stazione di lavoro f Japanese: ワークステーション (wākusutēshon) Korean: 워크스테이션 (wokeuseuteisyeon) Lithuanian: darbo stotis (lt) m Malay: stesen kerja Mongolian: Cyrillic: уоркстейшн (uorkstejšn) Norwegian: Bokmål: arbeidsstasjon m Nynorsk: arbeidsstasjon m Persian: Iranian Persian: ایسْتْگاهِ کار (istgâh-e kâr) Polish: stacja robocza f Portuguese: workstation (pt) f, estação de trabalho (pt) f Russian: рабо́чая ста́нция f (rabóčaja stáncija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: радна станица f Roman: radna stanica f Slovak: pracovná stanica f Spanish: estación de trabajo f Swedish: arbetsstation (sv) c Thai: สถานีงาน (sà-tǎa-nii-ngaan) Turkish: workstation Ukrainian: робо́ча ста́нція f (robóča stáncija) Vietnamese: trạm làm việc

area for single worker

Esperanto: kontoro (eo) 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)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English workstation.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /u.oʁ.kisˈte(j).ʃõ/ [ʊ.oh.kisˈte(ɪ̯).ʃõ], (faster pronunciation) /woʁ.kisˈte(j).ʃõ/ [woh.kisˈte(ɪ̯).ʃõ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /u.oʁ.kisˈte(j).ʃõ/ [ʊ.oh.kisˈte(ɪ̯).ʃõ], (faster pronunciation) /woʁ.kisˈte(j).ʃõ/ [woh.kisˈte(ɪ̯).ʃõ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /u.oɾ.kisˈte(j).ʃõ/ [ʊ.oɾ.kisˈte(ɪ̯).ʃõ], (faster pronunciation) /woɾ.kisˈte(j).ʃõ/ [woɾ.kisˈte(ɪ̯).ʃõ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /u.oʁ.kiʃˈte(j).ʃõ/ [ʊ.oχ.kiʃˈte(ɪ̯).ʃõ], (faster pronunciation) /woʁ.kiʃˈte(j).ʃõ/ [woχ.kiʃˈte(ɪ̯).ʃõ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /u.oɻ.kisˈte(j).ʃõ/ [ʊ.oɻ.kisˈte(ɪ̯).ʃõ], (faster pronunciation) /woɻ.kisˈte(j).ʃõ/ [woɻ.kisˈte(ɪ̯).ʃõ]

Noun

workstation f (plural workstations)

1. (computing) workstation (powerful desktop computer)

   Synonym: estação de trabalho

Further reading

• “workstation”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025