Platform

The word platform is used in several different contexts including various topics:

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• 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.
• In fashion, platform refers to platform shoes.
• In Geology, a continental platform is the low depth sea area next to the continent.
• In the context of swimming baths, a flat surface, usually made of cement, and typically 3, 5, 7.5, or 10-meters above the water surface, from which bathers jump into the baths located below the platform. Similar platforms occur naturally or are made in an ad-hoc way for cliff jumping.
• A 2000 film by Zhang Ke Jia.
• A 2001 novel by Michel Houellebecq.