storage

Pluralstorages

1. 1
   place to keepnouncountable or uncountable

   A container, room, or facility used to keep something in.

   They turned the attic into extra storage, with deep shelves running along both walls.

   After the dry summer, the region's water storages were less than half full.

   UsageEveryday speech usually says storage space, a storage unit or a storage room; the plural storages is mostly technical, as in water storages.

   Similarstoreroom, depot, repository, warehouse

   Note

   Melbourne's water storages fell to 33.1 percent of capacity, the Herald Sun reported in 2009, and gas engineers write of underground natural gas storages. When it names a specific reservoir, tank, or facility rather than general space, it can take an article and a plural.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   The act of keeping goods somewhere, or the state of being kept.

   The museum keeps fragile artifacts in climate-controlled storage.

   Long-term storage of grain requires careful moisture control.

   UsageThings go into storage or are kept in storage.

   Similarsafekeeping, warehousing, stowage, keeping

3. 3
   computer datanoun

   Devices such as disks and flash memory that keep computer data for a longer term than main memory, or the space they provide.

   The server's storage filled up after years of backups.

   Solid-state storage reads data faster than older hard drives.

   UsageNot the same as memory: storage keeps files, memory holds what is running. A phone can run out of storage.

   Note

   Computing uses the word to draw a line against main memory: storage is where data stays, memory is where it is worked on. In everyday use it is plain storage, and files are backed up to storage before a system is reinstalled; textbooks speak of secondary storage. It is normally a mass noun, though Ramesh Bangia's textbook Computer Fundamentals and Information Technology has secondary storages holding operating systems and compilers. Source

   Checked 6 Nov 2026 · 2 facts

   • Ramesh Bangia wrote Computer Fundamentals and Information Technology. books.google.com
   • The book uses the plural secondary storages for devices holding operating systems and compilers. en.wiktionary.org

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