A staging area (otherwise staging point, staging base, or staging post) is a location in which organisms, people, vehicles, equipment, or material are assembled before use. It may refer to: * In

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, a designated area in which vehicles, supplies, and construction equipment are positioned for access and use to a construction site. * In

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, the resting and feeding places of

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. * In

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, places designated for setting up parades and other elaborate presentations. * In

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, the use of furniture to stage an area of one's home to prepare it for sale. * In

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, designated places for news conferences placed near locations of high media interest. * In space exploration, an area where final assembly is done on

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s before they are moved out to their

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. * In data management, an intermediate storage area between the sources of information and the

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(DW) or

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(DM). It is usually of temporary nature, and its contents can be erased after the DW/DM has been loaded successfully (see data staging). * In software development, an environment for testing that exactly resembles a production environment. It seeks to mirror an actual production environment as closely as possible and may connect to other production services and data, such as

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s. In

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usage, a ''staging area'' is a place where troops or equipment in transit are assembled or processed. The

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uses these definitions: Often and historically, this military staging area has been termed a ''

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'', which is often on high ground and sometimes coincident with a significant prehistoric monument, as in the case of

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in Aberdeenshire,

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. Unlike normal bases, the facilities of a staging area are temporary, mainly because for a certain time it will hold much more troops and materiel than would be reasonable in peacetime. Militaries use staging areas to deploy

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, aircraft, and

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s and

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ahead of an attack or

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. In former times, this used to be generally the border area of one's own country, but in recent wars (

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Iraq War {{Infobox military conflict , conflict = Iraq War {{Nobold, {{lang, ar, حرب العراق (Arabic) {{Nobold, {{lang, ku, شەڕی عێراق ( Kurdish) , partof = the Iraq conflict and the War on terror , image ...

), it may also be the border area of another unrelated country granting access.

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