reservoir
/ˈɹɛz.ə(ɹ).vwɑɹ/ noun B2- A place where anything is kept in store.
- A large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply.
- A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.
- A supply or source of something.
- A species that acts as host to a zoonosis when it is not causing acute illness in other susceptible species.
- A "black box" component that receives an input signal to be read out and mapped by another process, as part of reservoir computing.
Plural reservoirs
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Besides, the monkeys lived there as much as they could be said to live anywhere, and no self-respecting animal would come within eyeshot of it except in times of drought, when the half-ruined tanks and reservoirs held a little water.
He set his teeth and said nothing, but went with the shouting monkeys to a terrace above the red sandstone reservoirs that were half-full of rain water.
He worked his way desperately, inch by inch, straight for the reservoirs, halting in silence.
A severe drought had left the region's reservoirs dangerously low.
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