depot
nounUK /ˈdɛpəʊ/ · US /ˈdiːpoʊ/
Etymology From French dépôt, from Old French depost, from Medieval Latin dēpositum, from Latin, participle of dēpōnō, dēpōnere. Doublet of deposit.
8 senses
- 1A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.
- 2A storage space for public transport and other vehicles…
- 3A bus station or railway station.
- 4A place where recruits are assembled before being sent…
- 5A place for the storage, servicing, or upgrade of…
- 6The portion of a regiment that remains at home when the…
- 7A bolus of medication that remains sequestered in some…
- 8The tableau: the area where cards can be arranged in…
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.2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:
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.
Government, Military, Politics, War A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units.
Government, Military, Politics, War A place for the storage, servicing, or upgrade of military hardware.
Government, Military, Politics, War The portion of a regiment that remains at home when the rest go on foreign service.
Medicine, Sciences A bolus of medication that remains sequestered in some particular site within the body, often intradermally, from which it is gradually absorbed.
- depot injection
Card games, Games The tableau: the area where cards can be arranged in solitaire or patience games.
- Derived terms
- accountable depot, dumpling-depot, Mansfield Depot, motive power depot, NADEP, nondepot, replacement depot, repo depot, sub-depot, subdepot, supply depot, Susquehanna Depot, Washington Depot