Noun

(inventories)

(operations) The stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business

Due to an undersized inventory at the Boston outlet, customers had to travel to Providence to find the item.

(operations) a detailed list of all of the items on hand

The inventory included several items that one wouldn't normally think to find at a cheese shop.

(operations) the process of producing or updating such a list

This month's inventory took nearly three days.

(lb) A space containing the available to a character for immediate use.

Noun

(en noun)

A systematic list of names, books, pictures etc.

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, year=2012 , date=May 5 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Reds were on the back foot early on when a catalogue of defensive errors led to Ramires giving Chelsea the lead. Jay Spearing conceded possession in midfield and Ramires escaped Jose Enrique far too easily before scoring at the near post with a shot Reina should have saved.}}

A complete (usually alphabetical) list of items.

A list of all the publications in a library.

(US) A university calendar.

(computing, dated) A directory listing.

* 1983 , Helpline'' (in ''Sinclair User issue 21)

The program generates a catalogue of the files on the cartridge selected by the user, reads the catalogue into memory and erases the cartridge copy, so that an up-to-date copy is always generated.

* 2003 , "Brotha G", Repairing Microdrive Cartridges'' (on newsgroup ''comp.sys.sinclair )

It has two extra options using extended syntax. CAT - an extended catalogue but not as detailed as some I've seen. ( The reason that the Spectrum CAT command is restricted is that it cleverly uses the 512 bytes data buffer of the microdrive channel to sort the filenames - hence the limit of 50 ten-character filenames )