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storage|ˈstɔərɪdʒ|
Also 9 storeage.
[f. store v. + -age.]
1. Capacity or space for storing.
1612–13Fletcher Coxcomb i. i. (1647) 99/1 They are made like Carrecks, only strength and storage. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Storage, Warehouse room for Goods. 1848S. C. Homersham Rep. to Directors M.S. & L. Rlwy. 55 The storage that can be made available to receive the flood water from this area of drainage ground now stands as follows. 1946Goldstine & von Neumann in J. von Neumann Coll. Wks. (1961) V. 24 It may be seen from the fact that each binary digit requires essentially one relay or one pair of vacuum tubes..that this form of storage rapidly becomes quite expensive. 1964T. W. McRae Impact of Computers on Accounting ii. 38 These early machines..were fitted with magnetic tape storage. 1973C. W. Gear Introd. Computer Sci. vii. 309 We must develop a scheme for allocating storage as it is needed and ‘recovering’ it when structures using it are deleted.
2. a. The action of storing or laying up in reserve; the condition or fact of being stored.
1828Webster, Storage, the act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; or the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse. 1868Daily News 15 July, The Belgian government have determined..to prohibit the manufacture, storage, or transport of that dangerous compound [nitroglycerine] in Belgium. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 13 The chances of contamination of the water during storage are very great. 1879M. Pattison Milton xiii. 207 Milton's diction is the elaborated outcome of all the best words of all antecedent poetry, not by a process of recollected reading and storage, but [etc.]. 1907J. A. Hodges Elem. Photogr. (ed. 6) 159 Precautions should be taken for dry storage.
b. cold storage: the storing of provisions in refrigerating chambers as a means of preserving them from decay. Also attrib. Similarly cool storage (see quot. 1906).
1877Illustr. London News 3 Mar. 203/1 A..company called Cold Storage Wharf..undertakes to provide cold storage accommodation for fresh meat..and all produce of a perishable nature, from all parts of the world. 1895Daily News 23 Nov. 3/2 We have now a very large capital..invested in cold storage premises in various parts of London. 1906Westm. Gaz. 27 July 7/3 To ensure that the cheese is delivered in uniform good condition the temperature of the four chambers..will be maintained at 45deg. to 48deg. This is known as ‘cool storage,’ which is distinct from cold storage. 1926Daily Express 11 May 1/3 No difficulty was experienced at any of the cold storage centres. 1933Discovery Apr. 126/1 Canning and freezing both eliminate the risk of spoilage by moulds and bacteria which are a constant danger in cold storage. 1946Nature 21 Dec. 920/2 Fruit cold-storage research has continued.
fig.1897Outing XXX. 367/1 Still that stony stare and his reiterated, impertinent queries... A cold-storage air arose between us. 1907W. James Pragmatism vi. 231 When may a truth go into cold-storage in the encyclopedia? and when shall it come out for battle? 1920W. Perrett Peetickay 3 It seemed..that the thing to do would be to apply the stenographic principle to the consonants... That plan is now in cold storage. 1951A. Huxley Let. 22 July (1969) 637 It seems to be rather a shame that this anthology-with-comments, which cost me a lot of work..should remain indefinitely in cold storage. 1979A. Boyle Climate of Treason xi. 420 If he did idly question why the Soviet Union had kept their guests in cold storage for so long, Philby soon found a ready answer.
c. Electr. (See quot. 1893.)
1881S. P. Thompson in Jrnl. Soc. Arts XXX. 30/1 The Storage of Electricity. 1893Sloane Electrical Dict., Storage of electricity. Properly speaking electricity can only be stored statically or in static condensers, such as Leyden jars. The term has been popularly applied to the charging of secondary or storage batteries, in which there is really no such thing as a storage of electricity, but only a decomposition and opposite combination brought about, which leave the battery in a condition to give a current.
d. Computers. The placing or keeping of data and instructions in a device from which they can be retrieved as needed.
1909Sci. Proc. R. Dublin Soc. XII. 80 The present design of the machine provides for the storage of 192 Variables of twenty figures each. 1945J. von Neumann in B. Randell Origins Digital Computers (1973) 358 R has also the properties of a memory. Indeed, it is the natural medium for long time storage of all the information obtained by the automatic device on various problems. 1958Listener 11 Dec. 983/2 For high-speed storage, the magnetic cores of the present machines will give way to films of special iron alloys deposited in vacuo upon ceramic plates. 1978J. P. Hayes Computer Archit. & Organization v. 325 The physical processes involved in storage are sometimes inherently unstable, so that stored information may be lost over a period of time.
3. A place where something is stored.
1775in Ash. 1865E. Burritt Walk Land's End vii. 241 The whole of Dartmoor seems to be a storage of this valuable stone [sc. granite].
4. Rent paid for warehousing.
1775in Ash. 1809R. Langford Introd. Trade 134 Storage, warehouse rent. 1817–8Cobbett Resid. U.S. (1822) 232 This very salt; when brought here from England, has all the charges of freight, insurance, wharfage, storage, to pay. 1862W. Waterston Man. Commerce 303 Storeage, a charge for warehouse rent.
5. attrib., as storage bin, storage capacity, storage charge, storage company, storage device, storage dump, storage house, storage hut, storage medium, storage pile, storage power, storage register, storage rent, storage reservoir, storage-room, storage space, storage warehouse.
1900Engineering Mag. XIX. 753/1 The *storage bins for ore, limestone, and coke.
1868in Encycl. Brit. (ed. 9) XVI. 458/1 Sixty-seven reservoirs..having a *storage capacity of 336,000,000 feet.
1884Law Times Rep. XLIX. 742/2 The charges in question were warehouse and *storage charges.
1884Pall Mall Gaz. 19 July 5/2 The prospects of electric light companies in general, and *storage companies in particular, have of late been so much overcast that [etc.].
1946Electr. Engin. LXV. 389 Each is a complete adding and subtracting machine, and functions as a *storage or memory device. 1955IRE Trans. Electronic Computers IV. 16/1 This report deals with a storage device utilizing magnetic cores to achieve fairly large amounts of information storage with a relatively moderate amount of circuitry. 1972D. Lewin Theory & Design Digital Computers vi. 185 Storage devices may have either destructive or non-destructive read-out of the stored data.
1882Rep. Prec. Met. U.S. 98 *Storage dumps have been built.
1856Miss Warner Hills Shatemuc viii, The mill and *storeage house kept and owned by Mr. Cowslip.
1894Westm. Gaz. 8 May 5/1 On making inquiries as to who were in the *storage hut at the time.
1947A. W. Burks et al. in J. von Neumann Coll. Wks. (1963) V. 40 There still remains the problem of automatic integration of this *storage medium with the machine. 1966Sci. Amer. Sept. 80/1 Magnetic materials..supply the principal storage medium in computers.
1913Times 9 Aug. 19/3 At the present time there are 13,114 tons of coal in the *storage pile.
1881S. P. Thompson in Jrnl. Soc. Arts XXX. 34/2 *Storage power lessened by heat.
1946Ann. Computation Lab. Harvard Univ. I. 14 Each *storage register consists of twenty-four electro-magnetic counter wheels. 1965Hollingdale & Tootill Electronic Computers 114 In most computers an individual storage register is not a separate entity, either physically or conceptually, and the term storage location is more appropriate.
1868Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. 341, I paid a month's *storage rent in advance.
1877Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 91 For a supply of water during the dry season we rely almost exclusively upon our *storage-reservoirs.
1848S. C. Homersham Rep. to Directors M.S. & L. Rlwy. 37 This amount of *storage room is by no means large. 1891Daily News 24 Oct. 7/4 On going into the storage-room he saw a number of pieces of meat.
1936Discovery May 158/1 It may well revolutionise library methods and solve the eternal question of *storage-space. 1979D. Mallett Greatest Collector ix. 84 Richard Wallace..bought no furniture, not wishing, perhaps, to add to the already acute problems of storage space.
1904Westm. Gaz. 15 Dec. 11/3 The paper also recommended a system of *storage warehouses as a remedy for low prices arising from exceptionally large crops.
6. Special comb.: storage battery, a secondary battery in which a supply of electricity is accumulated; storage-bellows (see quot.); storage cell, an electrical accumulator; storage heater, (a) a heating apparatus for railway carriages, operating by means of stored heat; (b) = night storage heater s.v. night n. 14; hence storage heating, heating by means of storage heaters; storage life (see quot. 19711); storage location Computers, a place in a store capable of storing one unit of data and usu. specifiable by an address; storage protection Computers, the protection of storage locations against unauthorized or accidental reading or writing; storage ring Physics, an approximately circular accelerator in which particles can be effectively stored by being made to circulate continuously at a high energy; storage station, a place at which electric current is stored for distribution for lighting purposes; storage tank, a tank for storage (e.g. of petrol); storage tube Electronics, any of various kinds of electron tube which store the information or image applied to them so that it can be retrieved at a later time; storage tuber, a tuber forming a reservoir of nourishment for the plant; storage unit, (a) one of a set of domestic cupboards; (b) a unit that serves as storage for a computer; storage wall, a partition wall consisting of cupboards, often designed to be opened from either side.
1881S. P. Thompson in Jrnl. Soc. Arts XXX. 35/2 This is one of the rocks on which amateur constructors of *storage batteries have come to grief. 1898A. Treadwell Storage Battery 206 Probably the largest installation for the operation of storage-battery cars is in Paris.
1891Century Dict. s.v. Organ, *Storage-bellows, horizontal bellows into which the feeders open, and in which the air is kept at a uniform pressure by means of weights.
1881S. P. Thompson in Jrnl. Soc. Arts XXX. 30/2 It is doubly difficult to find, in the electric accumulator or *storage cell, anything which can be called stored electricity.
1894Westm. Gaz. 10 Dec. 8/1 The *storage heater is partially filled with a solution of salt water or acetate of soda. 1961Listener 19 Oct. 629/1 For an existing house the storage-heater system works out very favourably. A good-looking storage-heater with thermostatic control..costs {pstlg}22 10s. 6d. 1977B. Pym Quartet in Autumn x. 88 Mrs Pope's sister apparently being too mean to switch on the storage heaters before January.
1961Listener 19 Oct. 629/1 A *storage-heating installation. Ibid. 629/2 The chief disadvantage of storage-heating is the comparatively slow reaction to sudden big outside-temperature changes.
1971Gloss. Terms Quality Assurance (B.S.I.) 8 *Storage life, the specified length of time prior to use for which items which are inherently subject to deterioration are deemed to remain fit for use under prescribed conditions. 1971Country Life 9 Sept. 643/1 How can the storage life of vacuum-packed bacon be extended?
1949D. R. Hartree Calculating Instruments & Machines 96 Different means have to be used for identification of a *storage location on a wire. 1964T. W. McRae Impact of Computers on Accounting i. 10 If we have 100 storage locations, each one of which can store one character, we will divide this up into ten words, each word containing ten storage locations.
1965G. B. Davis Introd. Electronic Computers 223 A *storage protection feature is an optional feature not usually found on small computers. 1970O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing ix. 128 In a computer with storage protection, a program can modify the contents of storage only within a prescribed area assigned to the program.
1956G. K. O'Neill in Physical Rev. CII. 1418/2 (heading) *Storage-ring synchrotron: device for high-energy physics research. Ibid., Two ‘storage rings’, focusing magnets containing straight sections one of which is common to both rings, are built near the accelerator. 1965New Scientist 18 Mar. 692/2 They accelerated two comparatively low energy beams of electrons to 300 MeV in a linear accelerator; they steered these beams into two ‘storage rings’ built adjacent to one another in the form of a figure of eight, and finally made them collide head-on at the point where the two rings touch. 1978Nature 20 July 202/1 PETRA, Europe's 19 GeV on 19 GeV electron-positron storage ring under construction..near Hamburg, has circulated its first beam around the ring and stored it ‘for several minutes’.
1889Daily News 28 Nov. 6/1 The electric current will in the first place be transmitted..from Draycott-place to the three ‘*storage’ stations.
1897P. Dawson Electric Rlwys. etc. 366 The required compressed air is carried in a *storage tank provided under each car.
1946Radar: Summary Rep. & Harp Project (U.S. Nat. Defense Res. Comm., Div. 14) 144/1 *Storage tube. 1947Electronics Sept. 80/1 Specific applications of this storage tube include use in simultaneous multicolor and three-dimensional presentation of radar or sonar data. 1975D. G. Fink Electronics Engineers' Handbk. vii. 30 The correlation is a storage tube that receives a visual input to a photoemissive film..and later compares the original image with a similar image.
1914Bower Address Brit. Assoc. in Nature 24 Sept. 103/1 The plant is well known to botanists as regards its external features, its annual *storage tuber, [etc.].
1951Catal. of Exhibits, South Bank Exhib., Festival of Britain 125/2 *Storage unit. 1964T. W. McRae Impact of Computers on Accounting vii. 199 A magnetic tape reel is a remarkably compact storage unit. 1978J. McNeil Consultant xi. 117 Two lines of storage units ran at right angles to the wall. 1978J. Kellock Elements of Accounting xii. 215 Hardware includes the storage unit, arithmetic unit, control unit, and all the input and output devices used with the computer.
1945Nelson & Wright Tomorrow's House xi. 132 (caption) It is only a step to the use of such equipment [sc. storage cabinets] to form the walls themselves—a device which we have named the ‘*storagewall’. 1959House & Garden July 43/2 The dining-room, linked to the kitchen by a storage wall. 1970Observer 18 Oct. 35/1 Ideally, every room in every house needs a storage wall. |