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
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