docking station

English

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.

Related terms

• port replicator

Translations

piece of hardware

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 擴展塢／扩展坞 (kuòzhǎnwù), 塢站／坞站 (wùzhàn)

• Esperanto: doko (eo)
• Finnish: telakka (fi)
• French: station d’accueil (fr) f
• German: Dockingstation f, Andockstation f
• Italian: unità di connessione f
• Norman: stâtion d'amathage f
• Russian: док-сте́йшен m (dok-stɛ́jšen), док-ста́нция (ru) f (dok-stáncija), кредл m (krɛdl)