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noun

a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.

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How to use storage device in a sentence

Before deleting images and videos in the Capture Gallery, you can copy them to an external USB storage device so you can store them elsewhere.
Xbox One and PS4 storage boosts that will let you keep everything forever|David Nield|September 13, 2021|Popular-Science
Without structure, we wouldn’t have gene editing, DNA computers, or storage devices.
DeepMind’s AlphaFold Is Close to Solving One of Biology’s Greatest Challenges|Shelly Fan|December 15, 2020|Singularity Hub
I still do find it a tremendously useful device to invent a character and have the character sing the song.
Belle & Sebastian Aren’t So Shy Anymore|James Joiner|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Employees strap a device to their heads and power a helicopter drone with their minds.
Use Your Brain—Control a Drone|The Daily Beast Video|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Storage containers hold a treasure trove of mascara, lipstick, blush, and other makeup.
Inside A Finishing School for Transwomen|Sharon Adarlo|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The extending out of one syllable is a great songwriting device.
Yes, I Like Christmas Music. Stop Laughing.|Michael Tomasky|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They double down on the plot device of a lone visionary opposed by conventional hierarchies.
Why Can’t Movies Capture Genius?|Clive Irving|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This takes at first the crude device of a couple of vertical lines attached to the head (see Fig. 4).
Children's Ways|James Sully
That was not the device of a woman who loved—it savored rather of the cool state-craft of a Lucrezia Borgia.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
This would be a device for helping him to revive this hitherto unrecallable name.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
By a device resorted to in each separate case to help make a more vivid First Impression.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
A bailee who was a cold storage keeper, stated in his receipt "all damage to property is at the owner's risk."
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles

British Dictionary definitions for storage device

storage device

noun

a piece of computer equipment, such as a magnetic tape, disk, etc, in or on which data and instructions can be stored, usually in binary form

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Scientific definitions for storage device

storage device

[ stôr′ĭj ]

A hardware device, such as a CD-ROM or hard disk in a computer, used to record and store data.

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