PLATFORM

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 35

(Fr. plate for me.) In Architecture, a plane surface, lying level, of any materials used in a foundation or elsewhere, for the reception of the foundations of a building, or for the piers of a bridge: also a level scaffold, raised above the ground for a temporary purpose. Platform. In Artillery, an elevated floor on which guns are placed. [s. 950]