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Storage may refer to:

Small, mobile containers designed to hold food or other goods:
* Container (cargo), a shipping container, storage for cargo transport
* Food storage, containers such as Tupperware and Rubbermaid brands
* Magazine (artillery), an item or place within which ammunition is stored
* See also Packaging and labelling, commercial packaging used to store consumer goods, such as boxes, bottles, and cans

Furniture designed to hold small objects:
* Bookcase, Cabinet (furniture), Chest (furniture), Cupboard, Desk, Sideboard (hutch), Refrigerator, etc.

Larger containers typically designed to store special kinds of objects or substances:
* Reservoir (water), an artificial lake
* Tank (for storing liquid), a storage tank
* Dry cask storage, storing high-level radioactive waste

Special rooms, or parts of buildings, designed for storage:
* Storage room, Closet, Cellar, Attic

Special buildings, or collections of buildings, designed to hold large objects, or a great many objects of a particular type:
* Shed, Depot, Garage (house)
* Warehouse, a commercial building for storage of goods
* Self storage, public storage facility
* Ammunition dump, a military storage facility for live ammunition and explosives

Devices designed to store and release electrical charge or energy:
* Capacitor, stores electric charge
* Battery, a store of electricity

Devices designed for information storage and retrieval:
* Computer storage, Hard drive, Computer memory
* See also Store and forward, relaying information through one or more intermediate stations which temporarily store the information

Collections of stored information:
* Archive, or archives — a collection of records
* Books store the wisdom of the ages
* Memory stores the record of experience

See also

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