Storage
Encyclopedia
Storage may refer to:
Storage of goods
- WarehouseWarehouseA warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc. They are usually large plain buildings in industrial areas of cities and towns. They usually have loading docks to load and unload...
, a commercial building for storage of goods - Self storageSelf storageSelf storage is an industry in which storage space is rented to tenants, usually on a monthly basis. A self storage business provides rooms, lockers, containers, and/or outdoor space in which tenants can store and access their goods. Self storage tenants include businesses and individuals...
, public storage facility
Containers
- Dry cask storageDry cask storageDry cask storage is a method of storing high-level radioactive waste, such as spent nuclear fuel that has already been cooled in the spent fuel pool for at least one year.. These casks are typically steel cylinders that are either welded or bolted closed. When inside, the fuel rods are surrounded...
, storing high-level radioactive waste - Food storageFood storageFood storage is both a traditional domestic skill and is important industrially. Food is stored by almost every human society and by many animals...
- Intermodal containerIntermodal containerAn intermodal container is a standardized reusable steel box used for the safe, efficient and secure storage and movement of materials and products within a global containerized intermodal freight transport system...
, cargo shipping - Storage tankStorage tankA storage tank is a container, usually for holding liquids, sometimes for compressed gases . The term can be used for reservoirs , and for manufactured containers. The usage of the word tank for reservoirs is common or universal in Indian English, American English and moderately common in British...
Information storage
- Storage (memory)Storage (memory)Storage in human memory is one of three core process of memory, along with Recall and Encoding. It refers to the retention of information, which has been achieved through the encoding process, in brain for prolonged period of time until it is accessed by the recall process...
, a psychological and physiological process - Data storage deviceData storage devicethumb|200px|right|A reel-to-reel tape recorder .The magnetic tape is a data storage medium. The recorder is data storage equipment using a portable medium to store the data....
, computer hardware - Computer data storage, a computer process and result
See also
- Storage (album), a 1988 album by Merzbow
- Store (disambiguation)
- Container (disambiguation)
- Inventory (disambiguation)Inventory (disambiguation)Inventory is a list of goods and materials held available in stock by a business.Inventory may also refer to:* Moral inventory, self-examination by a member of a twelve-step program* Computer systems use inventories internally:...