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English Dictionary: Storage by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
storage
n
  1. the act of storing something
  2. a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the docks"
    Synonym(s): storehouse, depot, entrepot, storage, store
  3. the commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials
  4. (computer science) the process of storing information in a computer memory or on a magnetic tape or disk
  5. an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached"
    Synonym(s): memory, computer memory, storage, computer storage, store, memory board
  6. depositing in a warehouse; "they decided to reposition their furniture in a recommended repository in Brooklyn"; "my car is in storage"; "publishers reduced print runs to cut down the cost of warehousing"
    Synonym(s): repositing, reposition, storage, warehousing
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Storage \Stor"age\, n.
      1. The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe
            keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.
  
      2. Space for the safe keeping of goods.
  
      3. The price changed for keeping goods in a store.
  
      {Storage battery}. (Physics) See the Note under {Battery}.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   storage
  
      (Or "memory") A device into which data can be
      entered, in which they can be held, and from which they can be
      retrieved at a later time.
  
      (1995-12-24)
  
  
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