workstation
or work sta·tion
a work or office area assigned to one person, often one accommodating a computer terminal or other electronic equipment.
a computer terminal or personal computer connected to a mainframe or network.
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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How to use workstation in a sentence
In between calls to the rental company, Ali, a lawyer, set up her workstation in the Murphy bedroom that was sandwiched between my sleeping quarters and bathroom.
Was a three-week trip to New Orleans for work or vacation? Both. | Andrea Sachs | February 19, 2021 | Washington PostAccording to a statement given to Wired, the hackers busted into the system by compromising software called TeamViewer, which allows remote operators to control connected workstations from afar.
Hackers accessed a Florida water treatment plant’s system and tried to make a dangerous change | Stan Horaczek | February 9, 2021 | Popular-ScienceNow, as the unionization vote approaches, she said managers have come by workstations to hand employees water bottles and candy.
Amazon’s anti-union blitz stalks Alabama warehouse workers everywhere, even the bathroom | Jay Greene | February 2, 2021 | Washington PostEvery year, there’s at least one—usually more—elaborate multi-monitor workstation that looks like something you’d find in a NASA training facility or in the bedroom of that one guy at work who really loves Battlestar Galactica.
Razer’s concept gaming chair wraps players in a huge, curved screen | Stan Horaczek | January 12, 2021 | Popular-ScienceShe and other team members then spent the rest of that day and late into the evening, and several days more, sitting at their workstations, painstakingly combing through AlphaFold 2’s training data to try to find the mistake.
Know when to fold ’em: How a company best known for playing games used A.I. to solve one of biology’s greatest mysteries | Jeremy Kahn | November 30, 2020 | Fortune
Sometime in the early hours of the day KAL 007 was shot down, Beck arrived at his workstation at the embassy.
The Intern Who Birthed The KAL007 Conspiracy Theories | Tim Mak | September 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
British Dictionary definitions for work station
an area in an office where one person works
computing a device or component of an electronic office system consisting of a display screen and keyboard used to handle electronic office work
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