(usually countable) An object orplace in which something is stored.
2009 February 1, Staff writers, “Fires rage as business counts cost”, inHerald Sun[1], archived fromthe original on3 February 2009:
Melbourne's waterstorages 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 gasstorages are underground facilities for storing natural gas. At present, there are three types of underground natural gasstorages worldwide, which include depleted oil and gas reservoir gasstorages, salt-cave gasstorages and aquiferstorages.
2012, A. Grinham, B. Gibbes, D. Gale, M. Watkinson, M. Bartow (University of Queensland),Extreme rainfall and drinking water quality: a regional perspective, C. A. Brebbia,Water Pollution XI,page 187,
Low impactstorages included the northern and southern region′s Cooloolabin Dam, Baroon Pocket Dam, Leslie Harrison Dam, Hinze Dam and Little Nerang Dam. Highly impactedstorages included central region′s Wivenhoe Dam, Somerset Dam and North Pine Dam (Fig. 2), where TSS concentrations in these centralstorages where[sic] more than double compared to northern and southernstorages (Fig. 2A).
I′d recommend backing up these files tostorage before reinstalling the operating system.
2007, Ramesh Bangia,Computer Fundamentals and Information Technology, India: Firewall Media,page43:
Secondarystorages are used to store system programs (viz; operating system, assembler, interpreter, compiler and so on), data files, software packages and so on.
