What (who) is repository - definition
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Repositories; Repository (disambiguation); Media repository
repository
1. <database> See data dictionary.
2. <programming> The core of a CASE tool, typically a DBMS
where all development documents are stored.
(1999-04-27)
repository
[r?'p?z?t(?)ri]
¦ noun (plural repositories)
1. a place where or receptacle in which things are stored.
2. a place where something is found in significant quantities.
Origin
C15: from OFr. repositoire or L. repositorium, from reposit-, reponere (see repose2).
repository
(repositories)
A repository is a place where something is kept safely. (FORMAL)
A church in Moscow became a repository for police files.
= store
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Pronunciation examples for repository
1. code repository?
Rigby + More _ Talks at Google
2. repository, a yum repository might be a good way
Release Engineering Keynote _ Dinah McNutt _ Talks at Google
3. It's a big repository.
Class Size = 1 Billion _ Cecilia D'Oliveira + More _ Talks at Google
4. in one repository.
Darlene Lim _ Talks at Google
5. repository but artifact package management.
Release Engineering Keynote _ Dinah McNutt _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of repository
1. Advertisement The archive is Israel‘s central repository for films.
2. The database, by design, is a repository of criminal records.
3. Merely a repository of cheerleading for the fund‘s own investments?
4. But then they immediately filled their repository of cultural knowledge with new stereotypes.
5. Aggressiveness is frowned upon as the repository of negative energy and a precursor to dirty play.