storage

The act of storing goods; the state of being stored.

Noun

  1. The act of storing goods; the state of being stored.
    • There's a lot of storage in the loft.
  2. An object or place in which something is stored.
    • 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. - 2009 February 1, Staff writers, “Fires rage as business counts...
    • 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...
    • 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...
  3. Any computer device, including such as a disk, on which data is stored for a longer term than main memory.
    • 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. - 2007, Ramesh Bangia, Computer Fundamentals and...
  4. The price charged for storing goods.

Origin

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.

Forms

storages

Hyponyms

cloud storage digital storage

Derived

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

Verb

  1. To put into storage; to store.

Forms

storages storaging storaged