repository

1 a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping [syn: depository, deposit]

2 a person to whom a secret is entrusted [syn: secretary]

3 a burial vault (usually for some famous person) [syn: monument]

English

Pronunciation

\Re*pos"i*to*ry\

Etymology

From repositorium.

Noun

1. a location for storage, often for safety or preservation
2. a burial vault
3. a person to whom a secret is entrusted

Synonyms

• (location for storage) depository

Translations

Translations to be checked

• ttbc Dutch: opslagruimte
• ttbc French: dépôt, référentiel (in data storage context).
• ttbc Polish: przechowalnia, repozytorium (danych)
• ttbc Spanish: repositorio, depositorio.
• ttbc Serbian: stovariste, spremiste, skloniste, nosilac, skladiste, repozitorijum

Related terms

• reposit

A repository is a place where data are stored and maintained. A repository can be

• a place where data is stored
• a place where specifically digital data are stored
• a site where eprints are located
• a place where multiple databases or files are located for distribution over a network,
• a computer location that is directly accessible to the user without having to travel across a network.
• a place where anything is stored for probable reuse
• a place to store digital data

Etymology

From Latin repositorium, place or thing for storage; from reposit- (pp. of reponere, to store, put away) + -torium,, suffix indicating the place or thing appropriate for the verb to which it is affixed.

See also

• Component repository management
• Computer data storage
• Data mining
• Data proliferation
• Data warehouse
• Digital repository
• Directory
• Information repository
• Institutional repository
• Linux repository
• National repository
• PowerDesigner
• Repository (academic publishing)
• Repository OSID
• Revision control
• Software repository (often abbreviated to repo in this area)

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