storage

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The act of storing goods or the state of being stored.
• noun A space for storing goods.
• noun The price charged for keeping goods stored.
• noun The charging or regenerating of a storage battery.
• noun Computers The part of a computer that stores information for subsequent use or retrieval.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The act of storing, in any sense; specifically, the keeping of goods in a store, warehouse, or other place of deposit.
• noun The price charged or paid for keeping goods in a storehouse.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.
• noun Space for the safe keeping of goods.
• noun The price changed for keeping goods in a store.
• noun (Physics) See the Note under Battery.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun uncountable The act of storing goods; the state of being stored.
• noun An object or place in which something is stored.
• noun computing Any computer device, including such as a disk, on which data is stored for a longer term than memory.
• noun uncountable The price charged for storing goods.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun (computer science) the process of storing information in a computer memory or on a magnetic tape or disk
• noun the commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials
• noun the act of storing something
• noun a depository for goods
• noun an electronic memory device
• noun depositing in a warehouse