Usually means: Base for launching various activities.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. platform: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. platform: Merriam-Webster
  3. platform: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. platform: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. platform: Collins English Dictionary
  6. platform: Vocabulary.com
  7. Platform, platform: Wordnik
  8. platform, the platform: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Platform, Platform, Platform: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. platform: Wiktionary
  11. platform: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. platform: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. platform: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. platform: Dictionary.com
  15. platform: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. platform: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Platform (Hindi movie), Platform (album), Platform (art group), Platform (computing), Platform (disambiguation), Platform (economics), Platform (film), Platform (geology), Platform (movie), Platform (novel), Platform (shopping center), Platform (software), Platform (theatre), Platform, The Platform (film), The Platform: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Platform: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. platform: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. platform: Rhymezone
  21. platform: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. platform: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. PLATFORM: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  24. platform: FreeDictionary.org
  25. platform: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. platform: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Platform: E-Commerce and Marketing Dictionary of Terms
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  4. platform: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. platform: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. platform: Netlingo
  3. Platform: CCI Computer
  4. Platform: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  5. Technopedia (No longer online)
  6. Platform (computing), Platform (geology), platform: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. platform: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PLATFORM: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. platform: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Platform: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See platforming as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.
noun:  A raised floor for any purpose, e.g. for workmen during construction, or formerly for military cannon.
noun:  (figurative) A place or an opportunity to express one's opinion.
noun:  (figurative) Something that allows an enterprise to advance.
noun:  (politics, figurative) A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.
noun:  (transport) A raised structure or other area alongside rails or a driveway alongside which vehicles stop to take in and discharge passengers.
noun:  (geology) A flat expanse of rock, often the result of wave erosion.
noun:  (nautical) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine.
noun:  (obsolete) A plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern.
noun:  (Myanmar) sidewalk
verb:  (transitive) To furnish with or shape into a platform
verb:  (transitive) To place on, or as if on, a platform.
verb:  (rail transport) To place a train alongside a station platform.
verb:  (politics, transitive) To include in a political platform
verb:  (transitive) To publish or make visible; to provide a platform for (a topic etc.).
verb:  (film, transitive) To open (a film) in a small number of theaters before a broader release in order to generate enthusiasm.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.
noun:  (footwear, in the plural) Ellipsis of platform shoe: a kind of high shoe with an extra layer between the inner and outer soles. [A type of footwear with very thick soles and heels to make the wearer appear taller.]
noun:  (Internet) Ellipsis of digital platform: a software system used to provide online services to clients, such as social media, e-commerce, cloud computing etc.
noun:  (computing) Ellipsis of computing platform: a particular type of operating system or environment such as a database or other specific software, and/or a particular type of computer or microprocessor, used to describe a particular environment for running other software.
noun:  (automotive) Ellipsis of car platform: a set of components shared by several vehicle models.

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