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Microcomputer's stronger kin
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workstation
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a desktop computer, normally more powerful than a normal PC and often dedicated to a specific task, such as graphics 2 an area, at a workplace, for a single worker
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a desktop digital computer that is conventionally considered to be more powerful than a microcomputer
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A workstation is a special computer designed for technical or scientific applications. Intended primarily to be used by one person at a time, they are commonly connected to a local area network and run multi-user operating systems . The term workstation ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE inc ▪ All can be hosted by a personal computer or Sun Microsystems Inc workstation . ▪ The NeXT Computer Inc workstations it is reselling can be supported by CLARiiON over the network but not directly. other ▪ But ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also work-station , 1950, from work (n.) + station (n.). Computer sense is from 1972.
Usage examples of workstation.
Four tables with sinks and other apparatuses dwelled in the room, resembling chemistry or biology workstations.
Above my workstation, a pinwheel spins lazily in the draft of the ventilation system.
I crossed the room as fast as I could, creeping along low to the ground, my hands outstretched to keep from smashing into a workstation.
Ogle was just in the process of computerizing his whole operation, buying big high-powered Calyx workstations from Pacific Netware, and those unsightly holes in the plaster made installation a snap.
She faced a warren of desks and workstations, most occupied by obviously busy people who barely looked up as she entered.
In all that vast complex of workstations, boarding areas, launchpads, supply rooms, and communications gear, he was alone.
Most work in bland, shoulder-height cubicles, tapping away at a UNIX system built by Sun Microsystems or at a Dell workstation.
Making a photorealistic hologram of an imaginary object taxed the most powerful graphical workstation.
There was a note in the package saying that Parsons had the photos in a computer file and that any of them could be blown up on one of their Sun workstations and reprinted to whatever level of detail he wanted.
The workstations used by the analysis staff were protected in several ways to make sure they could not be turned on without authorization.
Several hours after the conclusion of the State of the Union address, at 06:00:00 GMT, a digitized chord sounded from one of the workstations, waking Otis up.
Zeldo and a couple of other slangy pizza-eating beards from America had laid claim to one end of Building 1 and set up their own little outpost of heavy metal music and novelty foam-rubber sledgehammers for pounding on their workstations when they got frustrated.
No odors, no fluids, just images on TV monitors, tracings on oscilloscopes, graphics on their Calyx workstations, and the occasional disembodied sound effect coming out of a speaker.
Machinery overloaded and exploded, workstations malfunctioned and shut down, and all through the ship the members of the crew fell to their knees, clutching at their heads as unfamiliar thoughts crashed through their minds.
People not strapped into seats clung to their workstations to avoid being dragged away.