Platform

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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
  • Platformism, in anarchist politics, the tradition of Nestor Makhno's Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists
• Platform (European politics), an openly organized faction within a left-wing political party
• Platform (computing), a framework on which applications may be run.
• Platform cover, in geology, the sedimentary deposits that lie on top of the craton's platform
• Platform game, a genre of video games
• Platform (geology), the part of a continental craton that is covered by sedimentary rocks
• 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
• A swimming pool platform, from which bathers jump
• Jumping platform, naturally occurring platforms, or platforms made in an ad-hoc way for cliff jumping
• Platform (film), a 2000 film by Jia Zhangke
• Platform (novel), a 2001 novel by Michel Houellebecq
• Platform (TV series), a short-lived internet television series that aired in 2007
• Platform (art group), an interdisciplinary art group that researches the oil industry.
• Platform (theatre), a standard piece of theatrical scenery.

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