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Platform
The word
platform
is used in several different contexts including various topics:
In
rail transport
, a
railway platform
is an area at a
train station
to alight from/embark on
trains
or
trams
.
In
politics
, a
political platform
is a list of principles held by a
political party
to appeal to the public.
In
anarchist
politics platformism refers to organising in the tradition of
Nestor Makhno
's Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists .
In
computing
and
technology
, a
platform
refers to a framework on which applications may be run. See
platform (computing)
. The term may occasionally refer to a
platform game
, a type of
computer game
.
An
oil platform
is a structure built for
oil
production.
In the context of
automobiles
, an
automobile platform
is a set of components shared by several vehicle models.
A
2000
film
by Zhang Ke Jia .
A
2003
novel
by
Michel Houellebecq
.
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