storage

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)The act of storing goods; the state of being stored.

   “There's a lot of storage in the loft.”

2. (countable, usually)An object or place in which something is stored.

   “Melbourne's water storages plunged by 0.7 per cent in a week, down to 33.1 per cent capacity, as Victoria recorded its second-driest January on record.”

   “2011 (2008), Wan Renpu, Petroleum Industry Press (translator), Advanced Well Completion Engineering, page 115, Underground natural gas storages are underground facilities for storing natural gas. At present, there are three types of underground natural gas storages worldwide, which include depleted oil and gas reservoir gas storages, salt-cave gas storages and aquifer storages.”

3. (uncountable, usually)Any computer device, including such as a disk, on which data is stored for a longer term than main memory.

   “I′d recommend backing up these files to storage before reinstalling the operating system.”

   “Secondary storages are used to store system programs (viz; operating system, assembler, interpreter, compiler and so on), data files, software packages and so on.”

4. (uncountable, usually)The price charged for storing goods.

verb

1. (transitive)To put into storage; to store.