Reservoir

Quick meaning: Reservoir is a noun meaning A place where anything is kept in store.

Meaning

A place where anything is kept in store.

More Meanings

1. A large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply.
2. A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.
3. A supply or source of something.
4. A species that acts as host to a zoonosis when it is not causing acute illness in other susceptible species.
5. (transitive) To store or keep (something) in or as in a reservoir.
6. (computing) A "black box" component that receives an input signal to be read out and mapped by another process, as part of reservoir computing.

Example Sentences

To replace them and also to provide a reservoir for relief trains, a certain amount of spare stock must be kept on hand.

Within a printer cartridge, ink is typically stored in an ink reservoir and is deposited onto media through a print head.

The goal is to draw on reservoirs of strength that defy rational thought, so you can wrench your poor, obsessed spirit away from work and orient it toward stuff that matters.

The vehicle is fitted with Westinghouse electro-pneumatic brake, and also a Northey exhauster with vacuum chamber and auxiliary reservoir adjacent to the guard's compartment for use when hauling vehicles equipped with vacuum brake gear.

Word Forms

• reservoirs
• reservoiring
• reservoired

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include storage, cache, stockpiling, storehouse, store, treasury.

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