Platform may refer to:

Arts

* Platform, an arts centre at The Bridge, Easterhouse, Glasgow * ''Platform'' (1993 film), a 1993 Bollywood action film * ''Platform'' (2000 film), a 2000 film by Jia Zhangke * '' The Platform'' (2019 film) * Platform (art group), an interdisciplinary art group that researches the oil industry * Platform (Australian art group), an artists group based in Melbourne * ''Platform'' (novel), a 2001 novel by Michel Houellebecq

Physical objects and features

Carbonate platform A carbonate platform is a Sedimentary rock, sedimentary body which possesses topographic relief, and is composed of Autochthon (geology), autochthonic calcareous deposits. Platform growth is mediated by Sessility (zoology), sessile organisms whose ...

, a type of sedimentary body * Cargo platform, a pallet used to ship cargo and heavy machines by forklift or manual lift * Diving platform, used in diving * Jumping platform, naturally occurring platforms, or platforms made in an ''ad hoc'' way for cliff jumping *

Oil platform An oil platform (also called an oil rig, offshore platform, oil production platform, etc.) is a large structure with facilities to extract and process petroleum and natural gas that lie in rock formations beneath the seabed. Many oil platforms w ...

, a structure built for oil production * Platform, a component of scaffolding * Platform (geology), the part of a continental craton that is covered by sedimentary rocks * Platform (shopping center) in Culver City, Greater Los Angeles, California * Theatre platform, a standard piece of theatrical scenery *

Platform mound A platform mound is any earthwork or mound intended to support a structure or activity. It typically refers to a flat-topped mound, whose sides may be pyramidal. In Eastern North America The indigenous peoples of North America built substru ...

, an earthwork intended to support a structure or activity *

Platform shoe Platform shoes are shoes, boots, or Sandal (footwear), sandals with a thick sole, usually in the range of . Platform shoes may also be high heels, in which case the heel is raised significantly higher than the ball of the foot. Extreme heights ...

, a kind of shoe with a thick sole *

Railway platform A railway platform is an area in a train station alongside a railway Track (rail transport), track providing convenient access to trains. Almost all stations have some form of platform, with larger stations having multiple platforms. Grand Cen ...

, an area at a railway station to alight from/embark on trains or trams

Politics

Party platform A political party platform (American English), party program, or party manifesto (preferential term in British and often Commonwealth English) is a formal set of principal goals which are supported by a political party or individual candidate, t ...

, a list of principles held by a political party * Platform (Mali), an alliance of pro-government paramilitary groups in the Mali War

Technology

Platform economy The platform economy encompasses economic and social activities facilitated by digital platforms. These platforms — such as Amazon (company), Amazon, Airbnb, Uber, Microsoft and Google — serve as intermediaries between various groups of users, ...

, a contemporary business model based upon apps and websites *

Computing platform A computing platform, digital platform, or software platform is the infrastructure on which software is executed. While the individual components of a computing platform may be obfuscated under layers of abstraction, the ''summation of the requi ...

, a framework on which applications may be run *

Digital platform (infrastructure) A digital platform is a software-based online infrastructure that facilitates user interactions and transactions. Digital platforms can act as data aggregators to help users navigate large amounts of information, as is the case with search engi ...

, a software-based online infrastructure that facilitates user interactions and transactions *

Platform game A platformer (also called a platform game, and sometimes a jump 'n' run game) is a subgenre of action game in which the core objective is to move the player character between points in an environment. Platform games are characterized by levels wi ...

, a genre of video games *

Car platform A car platform is a shared set of common design, engineering, and production efforts, as well as major components, over a number of outwardly distinct models and even types of cars, often from different, but somewhat related, marques. It is prac ...

, a set of components shared by several vehicle models *

Weapons platform A weapons platform is generally any building, structure, vehicle or mechanism (engineering), mechanism on which a weapon can be installed (via various weapon mount, mounting mechanisms) for optimal stability and performance. The mounted weapons, ...

, a system or structure that carries weapons *

Web platform The Web platform is a collection of technologies developed as open standards by the World Wide Web Consortium and other standardization bodies such as the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group, the Unicode Consortium, the Internet Engi ...

Other uses

* Economic platform, an intermediary in a

two-sided market In mathematics, specifically in topology of manifolds, a compact codimension-one submanifold F of a manifold M is said to be 2-sided in M when there is an embedding ::h\colon F\times 1,1to M with h(x,0)=x for each x\in F and ::h(F\times ...

* Platform (business model), a business model that creates value by facilitating exchanges between two or more interdependent groups * Platform conodonts, a type of

conodont Conodonts, are an extinct group of marine jawless vertebrates belonging to the class Conodonta (from Ancient Greek κῶνος (''kōnos''), meaning " cone", and ὀδούς (''odoús''), meaning "tooth"). They are primarily known from their hard ...

s with highly evolved feeding elements

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