Lexic.us

Definition of Reservoir

1. Noun. A large or extra supply of something. "A reservoir of talent"

2. Noun. Lake used to store water for community use.

3. Noun. Tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil).

4. Noun. Anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies. "An infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival"

Definition of Reservoir

1. n. 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.

Definition of Reservoir

1. Noun. 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. ¹

2. Noun. A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter. ¹

3. Noun. A supply or source of something. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reservoir

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Reservoir

1. 1. A place or cavity for storage, for anatomical structures serving as a storage space for fluids. 2. 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. 3. A small intercellular space, often containing esin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter. Receiving reservoir, a principal reservoir into which an aqueduct or rising main delivers water, and from which a distributing reservoir draws its supply. 4. A reservoir host or reservoir of infection, an alternate or passive host or carrier that harbours pathogenic organisms, without injury to itself and serves as a source from which other individuals can be infected. Origin: F. Reservoir, LL. Reservatorium, from server = to reserve (27 Oct 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reservoir

reservedly reservedness reservednesses reservee reservees reserver reservers reserves reservice reserviced

reservices reservicing reserving reservist reservists reservoir (current term) reservoir bag reservoir host reservoir of infection reservoirs

reservor reservors reses reset reset nodus sinuatrialis resets resettability

Literary usage of Reservoir

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"The combination with the back plate 1 of the cooking stove A, of the reservoir C, arranged on a support about midway between the top and bottom plates of ..."

2. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1914)
"reservoirs New Reinforced Concrete reservoir at Council Bluffs. ... Reinforced Concrete Water Works reservoir for La Crosse, Wis. ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"By having the bottom and back of the reservoir formed by a nina-reversa ... The convex back of the reservoir terminates in, and serves as a bridge wall, ..."

4. Annual Report by New York (State) Canal commissioners, New York (State), Canal Commissioners (1877)
"When the levels were reported down below " navigation mark," one superintendent would wait for the other to draw from the reservoir on his section, aud, ..."

5. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1914)
"reservoirs New Reinforced Concrete reservoir at Council Bluffs. ... Reinforced Concrete Water Works reservoir for La Crosse, Wis. ..."

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