Platform

Tamil Meaning

English Meaning

1. A horizontal surface raised above the level of the adjacent area, as a stage for public speaking or a landing alongside railroad tracks.
2. A vessel, such as a submarine or an aircraft carrier, from which weapons can be deployed.
3. An oil platform.
4. A place, means, or opportunity for public expression of opinion: a journal that served as a platform for radical views.
5. A vestibule at the end of a railway car.
6. A formal declaration of the principles on which a group, such as a political party, makes its appeal to the public.
7. A thick layer, as of leather or cork, between the inner and outer soles of a shoe, giving added height.
8. A shoe having such a construction.
9. Computer Science The basic technology of a computer system's hardware and software that defines how a computer is operated and determines what other kinds of software can be used.
10. Geology A flat elevated portion of ground.
11. Geology The ancient, stable, interior layer of a continental craton composed of igneous or metamorphic rocks covered by a thin layer of sedimentary rock.