Location vs Storage - What's the difference?
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A particular point or place in physical space.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= An act of locating.
* 1886 November 12, Joseph Church Helm, opinion, Pelican & Dives Min. Co. ''v.'' Snodgrass'', reprinted in, 1887, , volume 12, page 207 [http://google.com/books?id=1ss-AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA207&dq=location]:
(South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
* 2011 , Dennis Brutus, Bernth Lindfors, The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography (page 188)
(uncountable) The act of storing goods; the state of being stored.
(usually, uncountable) An object or place in which something is stored.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 1, author=Staff writers, title=Fires rage as business counts cost, work=
, passage=Melbourne's water storages plunged by 0.7 per cent in a week, down to 33.1 per cent capacity, as Victoria recorded its second-driest January on record.}}
* 2011 (2008), Wan Renpu, Petroleum Industry Press (translator), Advanced Well Completion Engineering ,
* 2012 , A. Grinham, B. Gibbes, D. Gale, M. Watkinson, M. Bartow (University of Queensland), Extreme rainfall and drinking water quality: a regional perspective'', C. A. Brebbia, ''Water Pollution XI ,
(usually, uncountable, computing) Any computer device, including such as a disk, on which data is stored for a longer term than memory.
* 2007 , Ramesh Bangia, Computer Fundamentals and Information Technology , Firewall Media, India,
(uncountable) The price charged for storing goods.
As nouns the difference between location and storage
is that location is a particular point or place in physical space while storage is (uncountable) the act of storing goods; the state of being stored.location
English
(wikipedia location)Noun
(en noun)T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
- The Ontario tunnel was not located in pursuance of the law relating to tunnel-sites. Lewis failed to follow up his discovery of mineral therein with any effort whatever towards completing the statutory location of a mining claim.
- It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations
Synonyms
* (a place) placeDerived terms
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English
(wikipedia storage)Noun
(en-noun)- There's a lot of storage space in the loft.
citation
page 115,
- Underground natural gas storages' are underground facilities for storing natural gas. At present, there are three types of underground natural gas '''storages''' worldwide, which include depleted oil and gas reservoir gas '''storages''', salt-cave gas '''storages''' and aquifer ' storages .
page 187,
- Low impact storages' included the northern and southern region?s Cooloolabin Dam, Baroon Pocket Dam, Leslie Harrison Dam, Hinze Dam and Little Nerang Dam. Highly impacted '''storages''' included central region?s Wivenhoe Dam, Somerset Dam and North Pine Dam (Fig. 2), where TSS concentrations in these central '''storages''' where(sic) more than double compared to northern and southern ' storages (Fig. 2A).
- I?d recommend backing up these files to storage before reinstalling the operating system.
page 43,
- Secondary storages are used to store system programs (viz; operating system, assembler, interpreter, compiler and so on), data files, software packages and so on.