STORAGE SPACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does storage space mean? 

• STORAGE SPACE (noun)
  The noun STORAGE SPACE has 1 sense:

1. the area in any structure that provides space for storage

  Familiarity information: STORAGE SPACE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STORAGE SPACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The area in any structure that provides space for storage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("storage space" is a kind of...):

area (a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "storage space"):

cache (a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons))

cellar; wine cellar (storage space where wines are stored)

closet; cupboard (a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space)

drawer (a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out)

cellar; root cellar (an excavation where root vegetables are stored)

stacks (storage space in a library consisting of an extensive arrangement of bookshelves where most of the books are stored)

Holonyms ("storage space" is a part of...):

deposit; depositary; depository; repository (a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping)

 Context examples 

The coding of data to save storage space or transmission time.

(Data Compression, NCI Thesaurus)

"It has enormous capacity to store water. What we don't know is 'How does the storage space get produced?' Understanding this layer between the soil and rock is important."

(Study explores how rock expands near soil surface in Sierra Nevada, National Science Foundation)

Data was lost or corrupted during the operation of reducing storage space or communication bandwidth.

(Device Data Compression Error Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)