depot
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Definition of depot
8 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
“Near-synonyms: depository, repository”
“Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.”
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noun
-
A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
“Near-synonyms: depository, repository”
“Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.”
- A storage space for public transport and other vehicles where they can be maintained and from which they are dispatched for service.
- (US)A bus station or railway station.
- A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units.
- A place for the storage, servicing, or upgrade of military hardware.
- The portion of a regiment that remains at home when the rest go on foreign service.
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A bolus of medication that remains sequestered in some particular site within the body, often intradermally, from which it is gradually absorbed.
“depot injection”
- The tableau: the area where cards can be arranged in solitaire or patience games.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From French dépôt, from Old French depost, from Medieval Latin dēpositum, from Latin, participle of dēpōnō, dēpōnere. Doublet of deposit.
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