docking station

English

Noun

docking station (plural docking stations)

A docking station and smartphone.

1. (computer hardware) A piece of hardware that expands the connectivity of a laptop or mobile device by linking it to peripherals such as monitors, keyboards, mice, and external drives through a single connection.

   Coordinate term: docking port

Translations

piece of hardware

• Bulgarian: до́кинг ста́нция f (dóking stáncija)
• 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
• Polish: stacja dokująca f
• Russian: док-сте́йшен m (dok-stɛ́jšen), док-ста́нция (ru) f (dok-stáncija), кредл m (krɛdl)

See also

• port replicator

Further reading

• docking station on Wikipedia.Wikipedia