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/ɹˈɛzəvwˌɑː/
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[ US /ˈɹɛzəvˌwɑɹ, ˈɹɛzɝvˌwɑɹ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɛzəvˌwɑɹ, ˈɹɛzɝvˌwɑɹ/ ]
NOUN
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a large or extra supply of something
a reservoir of talent -
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 - tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil)
- lake used to store water for community use
How To Use reservoir In A Sentence
- On land, giant reservoirs holding saline water could be built to offset the rise in sea levels caused by the melting of the polar ice-caps.
- Chemicals that the body doesn’t need all that much, such as some excess vitamins, water, salt, and fats, are not absorbed and are passed along to a reservoir located between the small and large intestines called the cecum pronounced sea-come. You Raising Your Child
- Fly fishers in the salt water environment need something entirely different to their freshwater counterpart on the chalk stream, as does the angler who fishes big reservoirs.
- She has a reservoir of talent, which needs to be nurtured and taken to higher levels.
- In the past floods have joined together Buttermere and Crummock lakes into one huge mere, and unified Thirlmere periodically long before Manchester Corporation turned it into one big reservoir. A seasonal lament
- Enhanced algae growth in the reservoir consumes the oxygen in the epilimnion and, as it decays, the mass sinks to the already oxygen-deficient hypolimnion, where decay processes reduce the oxygen concentration even further, resulting in acid conditions at lower levels and the dissolution of minerals from the reservoir bed. Chapter 8
- The methodology is based on the integration of a geomechanical reservoir description into fracturing design.
- Especially as the oil was spewing out from a reservoir 18,000 feet below the surface. The Sun
- It starts from the dam at the northern end of the Talybont reservoir.
- Chemical contamination of the Rybinsk Reservoir, northwest Russia: Relationship between liver polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) content and health indicators ... brama) [An article from: Chemosphere] by G.M. Chuiko Monsanto's Global Pollution Legacy