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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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