workstation

See also: work station

English

Etymology

From work +‎ station.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

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.
   • 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)
• 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