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The word platform is used in several different contexts, usually referring to some kind of standing surface used to support things, give them stability, or visibility:

  • Railway platform, an area at a train station to alight from/embark on trains or trams.
  • Political platform, a list of principles held by a political party to appeal to the public.
    • Platformism, in anarchist politics, refers to organising in the tradition of Nestor Makhno's Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists.
  • Platform (computing), in computing and technology, refers to a framework on which applications may be run
  • Platform game, a genre of video games characterized by the player having to jump platforms
  • Oil platform, a structure built for oil production
  • Automobile platform, a set of components shared by several vehicle models
  • Platform shoe, a kind of shoe with a thick sole
  • Continental platform, in geology, the low depth sea area next to the continent
  • Platform, in the swimming pool context, a flat surface, usually made of cement, and typically 3, 5, 7.5, or 10 meters above the water surface, from which bathers jump into the baths located below the platform.
  • Jumping platform, naturally occurring platforms, or platforms made in an ad-hoc way for cliff jumping
  • Platform (film), a 2000 film by Zhang Ke Jia
  • Platform (novel), a 2001 novel by Michel Houellebecq
  • Software development platform such as Mono development platform

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