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storage - 7 dictionary results

stor⋅age

[stawr-ij, stohr-]
–noun
1. the act of storing; state or fact of being stored: All my furniture is in storage.
2. capacity or space for storing.
3. a place, as a room or building, for storing.
4. Computers. memory (def. 11).
5. the price charged for storing goods.

Origin:
1605–15; store + -age

mem⋅o⋅ry

[mem-uh-ree]
–noun, plural -ries.
1. the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences.
2. this faculty as possessed by a particular individual: to have a good memory.
3. the act or fact of retaining and recalling impressions, facts, etc.; remembrance; recollection: to draw from memory.
4. the length of time over which recollection extends: a time within the memory of living persons.
5. a mental impression retained; a recollection: one's earliest memories.
6. the reputation of a person or thing, esp. after death; fame: a ruler of beloved memory.
7. the state or fact of being remembered.
8. a person, thing, event, fact, etc., remembered.
9. commemorative remembrance; commemoration: a monument in memory of Columbus.
10. the ability of certain materials to return to an original shape after deformation.
11. Also called computer memory, storage. Computers.
a. the capacity of a computer to store information subject to recall.
b. the components of the computer in which such information is stored.
12. Rhetoric. the step in the classical preparation of a speech in which the wording is memorized.
13. Cards. concentration (def. 7).

Origin:
1275–1325; ME memorie < L memoria, equiv. to memor mindful, remembering + -ia -y 3
stor·age   (stôr'ĭj, stōr'-)   
n.  
    1. The act of storing goods or the state of being stored.
    2. A space for storing goods.
    3. The price charged for keeping goods stored.
  1. The charging or regenerating of a storage battery.
  2. Computer Science The part of a computer that stores information for subsequent use or retrieval.

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.
Language Translation for : storage
Spanish: almacenamiento,
German: die Lagerung,
Japanese: 貯蔵

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.

storage 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)

storage

see in cold storage.

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