repository
pronunciation
How to pronounce repository in British English:
UK [rɪˈpɒzətri]
How to pronounce repository in American English:
US [rɪˈpɑzətɔri]
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- Noun:
- a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
- a person to whom a secret is entrusted
- a burial vault (usually for some famous person)
Word Origin
- repository (n.)
- late 15c., "vessel, etc., for storage," Middle French repositoire or directly from Late Latin repositorium "store," in classical Latin, "a stand on which food is placed," from noun use of repositus, past participle of reponere "put away, store" (see repose (v.2)). Figurative use is recorded from 1640s.
Example
- 1. Now you have made your first commit to your new git repository !
- 2. The repository will generally consist of a single table known as the partition table .
- 3. The internet is the largest repository of information which can provide very very large network resources .
- 4. Moreover , singletons can be stateful ; in this case , their role is to serve as a unique repository of state .
- 5. Rietveld doesn 't care which source control system you use , or where the repository is located -- it just deals with patches .