Usually means: Storage area for water retention.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. reservoir: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. reservoir: Merriam-Webster
  3. reservoir: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. reservoir: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. reservoir: Collins English Dictionary
  6. reservoir: Vocabulary.com
  7. Reservoir, reservoir: Wordnik
  8. reservoir: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Reservoir, Reservoir: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. reservoir: Wiktionary
  11. reservoir: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. reservoir: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. reservoir: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. reservoir: Dictionary.com
  15. reservoir: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. reservoir: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Reservoir (Fanfarlo album), Reservoir (Gordi album), Reservoir (MBTA station), Reservoir (Rauschenberg), Reservoir (disambiguation), Reservoir (water), Reservoir: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Reservoir: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. reservoir: Rhymezone
  20. reservoir, reservoir (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. reservoir: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. reservoir: FreeDictionary.org
  23. reservoir: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. reservoir: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Reservoir (water), reservoir: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Reservoir (water), reservoir: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. reservoir: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Reservoir: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  8. Reservoir (water), reservoir: Medical dictionary
  9. Reservoir: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  5. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  8. Reservoir: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions
  9. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)
  10. Water-Science Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  11. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A place where anything is kept in store.
noun:  A large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply.
noun:  A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.
noun:  A supply or source of something.
noun:  A species that acts as host to a zoonosis when it is not causing acute illness in other susceptible species.
noun:  (computing) A "black box" component that receives an input signal to be read out and mapped by another process, as part of reservoir computing.
verb:  (transitive) To store or keep (something) in or as in a reservoir.

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