depot

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Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
9
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈdɛpəʊ/(UK)
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/ˈdɛpəʊ/(UK) · /ˈdiːpoʊ/(US) · /ˈdepɐʉ/

Definition of depot

8 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. 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

  1. 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.”
  2. A storage space for public transport and other vehicles where they can be maintained and from which they are dispatched for service.
  3. (US)A bus station or railway station.
  4. A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units.
  5. A place for the storage, servicing, or upgrade of military hardware.
  6. The portion of a regiment that remains at home when the rest go on foreign service.
  7. A bolus of medication that remains sequestered in some particular site within the body, often intradermally, from which it is gradually absorbed.
    “depot injection”
  8. 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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