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In the MDA literature, the basic capability that an artifact is required to have to be characterized as a platform is the ability to support the execution of a software application.

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  1. noun A horizontal surface raised above the level of the adjacent area, as a stage for public speaking or a landing alongside railroad tracks.
  2. noun A vessel, such as a submarine or an aircraft carrier, from which weapons can be deployed.
  3. noun An oil platform.

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  • The incarnation that Microsoft is giving to this platform is the Azure Services Platform which is a comprehensive term that encompasses the Windows Azure computing platform, the Azure. —  MSDN Blogs
  • In the video embedded at the bottom of this article, Dion Hutchings, technical product manager, touches the subject of Windows Embedded CE, explaining what the platform is all about. —  Softpedia News - Global
  • I think Adobe wanted to see if the platform was a viable development opportunity before writing a Flash program for iPhone. —  Discussions: Message List - root
  • Phil's first thought had been to force his way up on to the platform, seize the cacique, and threaten him with instant death unless the man would consent to give them both immediate liberty; but he instantly discarded the idea, for as the thought flashed through his mind he noticed that the Indians in front of the platform were all fully armed; and for an unarmed man to force a passage through that hedge of deadly spears, ten deep, was a simple impossibility. —  Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess
  • Three days before this, May sixteenth, the Republican Convention had met at Chicago, and had nominated Lincoln and Hamlin on a platform which rang true on great principles and with high resolve In many particulars this platform was a contrast to, rather than a growth from, that of 1856. —  Fifty Years of Public Service
 

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  1. French plate-forme, diagram, from Old French : plat, flat; see plate + forme, form (from Latin fōrma).

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  1. Formerly also plotform (simulating plat, plot); = Spanish Portuguese ptalaforma = Italian piattaforma, from Old French plateforme, also platteforme, and as two words plate forme, platte fourme, French plateforme, a platform (terrace), platform (in architecture), prop, mudsill (of a bridge), etc., from plate, fem, of plat, flat, level, + forme, form: see plaf and form.
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