reservoir
IPA: rˈɛzʌvwɑr
noun
- A place where anything is kept in store.
- A large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply.
- A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.
- A supply or source of something.
- A species that acts as host to a zoonosis when it is not causing acute illness in other susceptible species.
- (computing) A "black box" component that receives an input signal to be read out and mapped by another process, as part of reservoir computing.
verb
- (transitive) To store or keep (something) in or as in a reservoir.
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Examples of "reservoir" in Sentences
- The dam of the reservoir is situated in the town.
- The water in the reservoir is heated by microwave energy.
- These are the characteristics of the dam and the reservoir.
- It starts and ends at the dam and circumnavigates the reservoir.
- The dam holding the reservoir was washed away in the flood of 1862.
- The vaporizer includes a platform floating on a reservoir of water.
- At this time, the reservoir is drained through the hot water faucet.
- This lowered the level of the reservoir, revealing the earlier timber dam.
- For years the reservoir was the largest artificial body of water in the world.
- For years, the reservoir was the largest artificial body of water in the world.
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