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Webster 1913 Edition
Reservoir
1.
A place where anything is kept in store; especially, a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal, or a city by means of aqueducts, or to drive a mill wheel, or the like.
2.
(Bot.)
A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.
Receiving reservoir
(Water Works)
, a principal reservoir into which an aqueduct or rising main delivers water, and from which a distributing reservoir draws its supply.
Webster 1828 Edition
Reservoir
RESERVOIR'
,Noun.
Definition 2025
Reservoir
reservoir
reservoir
English
Noun
reservoir (plural reservoirs)
- 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.
- 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:
- Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
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- A species that acts as host to a zoonosis when it is not causing acute illness in other susceptible species.
Derived terms
- receiving reservoir
- oil reservoir
- petroleum reservoir
Related terms
Translations
place where anything is kept in store
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a large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply
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