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Pronunciation:  ri'pâzi`towree

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WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a facility where things can be deposited for safekeeping
  2. [n]  a burial vault (usually for some famous person)
  3. [n]  a person to whom a secret is entrusted
 
 Synonyms: deposit, depository, monument, secretary
 
 See Also: archive, archives, bank, bank building, burial chamber, confidant, depository library, depot, drop, entrepot, facility, installation, intimate, library, lost-and-found, museum, repertory, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture, sperm bank, storage, storage space, store, storehouse, treasury

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Re*pos"i*to*ry\ (r?*p?z"?*t$*r?), n. [L.
repositorium, repostorium: cf. OF. repositoire.]
A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for
safety or preservation; a depository. --Locke.
 
Computing Dictionary
 
 Definition: 

1. See data dictionary.

2. The core of a case tool, typically a dbms where all development documents are stored.

 
 See Also: database, programming

 

 

 

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