workstation
Americannoun
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workstations
plural
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a work or office area assigned to one person, often one accommodating a computer terminal or other electronic equipment.
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a computer terminal or personal computer connected to a mainframe or network.
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a powerful personal computer, often with a high-resolution display, used for computer-aided design, electronic publishing, or other graphics-intensive processing.
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of workstation
First recorded in 1930–35
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Nvidia already sells the DGX Spark, a desktop workstation for AI engineers that costs $4,699, but the new chip will be aimed at consumer devices, although likely at the premium end of the market.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
Alary, on medical leave from his job, bought a new laptop, ordered a workstation and cooling racks and began pricing out servers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
Apple had been working on such a display for its prototypical workstation, the Lisa, which eventually would morph into the Macintosh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026
"What I'm selling isn't a workstation, but the dignity of not being a useless person," he says.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2025
I look at Voxy’s smiling face standing in front of the workstation.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
The first month of production yielded a hundred workstations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The bar in Zhongguancun, often called China's Silicon Valley, has two boxy Nvidia workstations to self-host DeepSeek V4 Flash -- meaning Song doesn't need to pay the Chinese startup to use its model.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
McCabe says the foundation managed to secure the venue before setting about the task of installing workstations, camera equipment and screens required to stage and broadcast the EWC.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
The suit describes supervisors allegedly sending Beteta and her coworkers back to their workstations three to four times per week to finish cleaning after they had already clocked out for the day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
He checked the workstations in the outer lab until he finally found a couple of memory sticks.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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