stor|age

stor|age
stor|age «STR ihj, STOHR-», noun.
1. a) the act or fact of storing goods: »

room for storage, the storage of furs in summertime.

 b) the condition of being stored. Cold storage is used to keep eggs and meat from spoiling. »

She removed her winter clothes from storage.

2. a place for storing: »

She has put her furniture in storage.

3. the price for storing, especially rent paid for warehousing: »

She paid $30 storage on her furniture.

4. the production by electric energy of chemical reactions that can be reversed to produce electricity, especially that occurring in and exemplified by the charging of a storage battery.
5. a) a device for storing information in a computer; memory. b) the storing of such information: »

long-term storage of data.

c) the amount of information stored: »

an 800,000-bit storage.


Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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