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. [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

reserve assets reserve bank reserve clause reserve force reserve fund reserve margin Reserve Officers Training Corps reservice reserviced reservices

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

reservoir of spermatozoa reses reset resets resettable resetted resetter resetters resetting resettle

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