Category:Reservoir

Res"er*voir` (rz"r-vwr`;277), n. Etym: [f. réservoir, fr. Ll. Reservatorium. See reservatory.]

1. A place where anything is kept in store; especially, a place where Water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a Fountain, a canal, or a city by means of aqueducts, or to drive a Mill wheel, or the like.

2. (bot.)

Defn: a small intercellular space, often containing receiving Reservoir (water works), a principal reservoir into which an aqueduct Or rising main delivers water, and from which a distributing Reservoir draws its supply.