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, 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, computer
        storage, store, memory board]
     6: depositing in a warehouse [syn: repositing, reposition,
        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 they can be held, and from which they can be
        retrieved at a later time.
     
        (1995-12-24)