storage

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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World English Dictionary

storage (ˈstɔːrɪdʒ)

—n
1.	the act of storing or the state of being stored
2.	space or area reserved for storing
3.	a charge made for storing
4.	computing
	a. the act or process of storing information in a computer memory or on a magnetic tape, disk, etc
	b. (as modifier): a storage device; storage capacity

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Medical Dictionary

storage stor·age (stôr'ĭj)
n.
The second of three stages in the memory process, involving mental processes associated with retention of stimuli that have been registered and modified by encoding.

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Computing Dictionary

storage definition

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)

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Idioms & Phrases

storage

see in cold storage.

Example sentences

So shifting your clothes into a storage system with more visibility might help

you keep your clothing better arranged.

Low-profile storage is provided underneath the windows so to not obstruct the

view.

Easy to install and remove, it folds flat for easy storage when not in use.

There was one interior storage room where four of us ended up-staring at walls

without windows, gasping for oxygen.

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Slang

in cold storage

Idioms & Phrases

in cold storage

Matching Quote

"A computer does not think, it feels nothing, and what it is said to "know"—bits of information all cast in the digital mode—has no fringe. Nor has it a memory, only storage room. On any point called for, the answer is all or none. Vagueness, intelligent confusion, original punning on words or ideas never occur, the internal hookups being unchangeable; they were determined once for all by the true minds that made the machine and program. When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity; the greatest mind cannot be relied on for the simplest thing; its variability is its superiority."

-Jacques Barzun