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battle station en · NOUN

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1. The position taken by a member of a military force when preparing for battle.
   • Man your battle stations!
2. (colloquial) The setup that one uses to play video games on a computer.
   • The Acer Predator XB271HU is the other highly-sought-after 1440p gaming monitor by enthusiasts for its unique quality and performance. […] The Predator scheme is widely preferred due to its appearance, since the black and red matches a lot of gaming-grade peripherals making it easy to streamline the look of your battle station. 2017 January 6, Paolo Reva, “Best 144Hz Monitors 2016 / 2017 - Buyer's Guide”, in MonitorNerds, retrieved 12 Jan 2021:
   • In gaming and DevOps, you have to share your battle station […] You also have to share all of your tools and work on the same problems at the same time with people either in the same room or all over the world. 2016 October 19, Maggie Gourlay, “5 Ways Testing Games Trained Me for Testing DevOps Applications”, in VictorOps, retrieved 12 Jan 2021:
   • Upgrade your battle station & join the ASTRO Family at PAX South! Shop in our booth and save 20% on all of our products! We’ll have headsets, bags, apparel, accessories and more! 2017 January 20, ASTRO Siege, “PAX South 2017 – ASTRO Gaming Blog”, in ASTRO Gaming Blog, retrieved 12 Jan 2021:
   • Pre-installed with a high-end GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card, the device can easily transform any Thunderbolt 3-enabled laptop into a powerful gaming battle station. 2017 June 21, Winston Chim, “GIGABYTE Releases AORUS GTX 1070 Gaming Box”, in FunkyKit, archived from the original on 13 Jan 2021:
3. A space station equipped primarily for combat.
   • Nothing looked more unominous on such a nice day than a planet-killing battle station swooping around in the blue. 2017, Anne Tenino, E. J. Russell, For a Good Time, Call... (page 132)

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