storage
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English store
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English storage
From store + -age.
Inflected forms:
form: storages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: storages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: storaging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: storaged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: storaged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act of storing goods; the state of being stored.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: There's a lot of storage in the loft.
gloss: An object or place in which something is stored.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: Melbourne's water storages plunged by 0.7 per cent in a week, down to 33.1 per cent capacity, as Victoria recorded its second-driest January on record.
2011 (2008), Wan Renpu, Petroleum Industry Press (translator), Advanced Well Completion Engineering, page 115,
Underground natural gas storages are underground facilities for storing natural gas. At present, there are three types of underground natural gas storages worldwide, which include depleted oil and gas reservoir gas storages, salt-cave gas storages and aquifer storages.
2012, A. Grinham, B. Gibbes, D. Gale, M. Watkinson, M. Bartow (University of Queensland), Extreme rainfall and drinking water quality: a regional perspective, C. A. Brebbia, Water Pollution XI, page 187,
Low impact storages included the northern and southern region′s Cooloolabin Dam, Baroon Pocket Dam, Leslie Harrison Dam, Hinze Dam and Little Nerang Dam. Highly impacted storages included central region′s Wivenhoe Dam, Somerset Dam and North Pine Dam (Fig. 2), where TSS concentrations in these central storages where more than double compared to northern and southern storages (Fig. 2A).
gloss: Any computer device, including such as a disk, on which data is stored for a longer term than main memory.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: I′d recommend backing up these files to storage before reinstalling the operating system.
Secondary storages are used to store system programs (viz; operating system, assembler, interpreter, compiler and so on), data files, software packages and so on.
gloss: The price charged for storing goods.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: To put into storage; to store.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: auxiliary storage
charge storage
client-side storage
cold storage
cryostorage
mass storage
microstorage
nonstorage
prestorage
primary storage
restorage
secondary storage
self-storage
server-side storage
storage area network
storage battery
storage cell
storage device
storage drive
storage engine
storage heater
storage hypervisor
storage life
storage location
storage medium
storage organ
storage polysaccharide
storage power station
storage protein
storage ring
storage station
storage time
storage tube
storage tuber
storage unit
storage wall
warm storage
working-storage section
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