workstation

See also: work station

English

Etymology

From work +‎ station.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɝkˌsteɪʃən/
Audio (US): (file)

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.
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]
- (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)

(computing) workstation (powerful desktop computer)
Synonym: estação de trabalho