STATIONS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Stations mean? 

• STATIONS (noun)
  The noun STATIONS has 1 sense:

1. (Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary

  Familiarity information: STATIONS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STATIONS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Stations; Stations of the Cross

Hypernyms ("Stations" is a kind of...):

devotion ((usually plural) religious observance or prayers (usually spoken silently))

series (similar things placed in order or happening one after another)

Domain category:

Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

 Context examples 

Some local radio stations will continue to transmit on FM until 2022.

(Norway start a complete switch-off of national FM radio stations, Wikipedia)

We give you ten minutes to get to your stations.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They knelt; while Mrs. Dent and Louisa Eshton, dressed also in white, took up their stations behind them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I have had to engage his forts, to take my men ashore, and to destroy his guns and his signal stations.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The team, developed a new technique that uses both local and distant earthquake data from the University of Utah Seismograph Stations and the EarthScope array of seismometers.

(Yellowstone magma discovery, NSF)

It is responsible for providing comprehensive health services to American Indians and Alaska Natives through IHS and tribally contracted hospitals, health centers, school health centers, and health stations.

(Indian Health Service, NCI Thesaurus)

The research team used advanced data-processing techniques on data from 1,300 GPS stations in the mountains of California, Oregon and Washington, collected from 2006 through October 2017.

(Sierras Lost Water Weight, Grew Taller During Drought, NASA)

The good writing represents stations, the bad writing movement, and the very bad writing passing over points.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The latest study used data from NASA satellites, as well as GPS stations across Greenland, to analyze changes in ice mass.

(Study: Greenland's Ice Melting Faster than Previously Thought, VOA)

Their technique, which they had previously tested with fiber-optic cables on land, could provide much-needed data on quakes that occur under the sea surface, where few seismic stations exist.

(Underwater telecom cables make superb seismic network, National Science Foundation)