A horizontal surface raised above the level of the adjacent area, as a stage for public speaking or a landing alongside railroad tracks, A thick layer, as of leather or cork, between the inner and outer soles of a shoe, giving added height, Computers 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, verb_ transitive To furnish with or shape into a platform, transitive To place on a platform, politics (transitive) To include in a political platform