"docking station" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: docking stations [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} docking station (plural docking stations)
  1. (computing) A piece of hardware into which a laptop computer can be plugged for use as a desktop computer, peripherals such as the monitor being connected directly to the docking station. Wikipedia link: docking station Categories (topical): Computing Related terms: port replicator Translations (piece of hardware): 擴展塢 (Chinese Mandarin), 扩展坞 (kuòzhǎnwù) (Chinese Mandarin), 塢站 (Chinese Mandarin), 坞站 (wùzhàn) (Chinese Mandarin), doko (Esperanto), telakka (Finnish), station d’accueil [feminine] (French), Dockingstation [feminine] (German), Andockstation [feminine] (German), unità di connessione [feminine] (Italian), stâtion d'amathage [feminine] (Norman), док-сте́йшен (dok-stɛ́jšen) [masculine] (Russian), док-ста́нция (dok-stáncija) [feminine] (Russian), кредл (krɛdl) [masculine] (Russian)

Inflected forms

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