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.
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   2. Space for the safe keeping of goods.
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   3. The price changed for keeping goods in a store.
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   Storage battery. (Physics) See the Note under Battery.
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	storage
    n 1: the act of storing something
    2: a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the
       docks" [syn: 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"
       [syn: 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" [syn: repositing, reposition,
       storage, warehousing]

	

	132 Moby Thesaurus words for "storage":
   RAM, admission, admission fee, allocation, anchorage, archives,
   armory, arsenal, assignment, attic, bank, basement, bay, bin,
   bonded warehouse, bookcase, box, brokerage, bunker, buttery,
   carfare, cargo dock, cellar, cellarage, charge, charges, chest,
   closet, cold storage, collocation, conservation, conservatory,
   cover charge, crate, crib, cupboard, custody, dead storage, demand,
   deployment, deposit, deposition, depository, depot, disk memory,
   disposition, dock, dockage, drawer, drum memory, dry storage, dues,
   dump, emplacement, entrance fee, exaction, exactment, exchequer,
   fare, fee, glory hole, godown, guardianship, high-speed memory,
   hire, hold, hutch, lading, library, license fee, loading,
   localization, locating, location, locker, lumber room, lumberyard,
   magasin, magazine, memory, memory tubes, packing, pilotage,
   pinpointing, placement, placing, portage, positioning, posting,
   preservation, putting, rack, repertory, reposition, repository,
   reservoir, rick, safekeeping, salvage, scot, scot and lot, shelf,
   shelf-room, shot, situation, spotting, stack, stack room,
   stationing, stock room, storage space, storage system,
   storage unit, store, storehouse, storeroom, stowage, supply base,
   supply depot, tank, tape memory, toll, towage, treasure house,
   treasure room, treasury, vat, vault, warehouse, warehousing,
   wharfage, wine cellar

	

	storage

    (Or "memory") A device into which data can be
   entered, in which it can be held, and from which it can be
   retrieved at a later time.  The distinguishing characteristics
   of a device are its capacity (the number of bytes it can
   hold), its access speed, whether it is volatile (loses
   data when the power is turned off), removeable and/or
   writeable.  Common examples are DRAM, hard disk, CD-ROM,
   Flash memory.

   (2009-02-23)