storage
    n 1: the act of storing something
    2: a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the
       docks" [syn: storehouse, depot, entrepot, storage,
       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, storage, computer
       storage, store, memory board]
    6: depositing in a warehouse; "they decided to reposition their
       furniture in a recommended repository in Brooklyn"; "my car
       is in storage"; "publishers reduced print runs to cut down
       the cost of warehousing" [syn: repositing, reposition,
       storage, warehousing]

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.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. The price changed for keeping goods in a store.
      [1913 Webster]

   Storage battery. (Physics) See the Note under Battery.
      [1913 Webster]

data storage
storage

    (Or "memory") A device or medium into which data can
   be entered, in which it can be held, and from which it can be
   retrieved at a later time.

   The distinguishing characteristics of a device are its
   capacity (the number of bytes it can hold), its access
   speed, whether it is volatile (loses data when the power is
   turned off), whether it is removeable or fixed and whether
   it is writeable or read-only.

   Some examples are DRAM, hard disk, CD-ROM, Flash
   memory.

   <Storage timeline>
   by <https://www.frontierinternet.com/>.

   (2018-04-11)