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Depot ( DEP-oh or DEE-poh) is from the French dépôt which means a deposit (as in geology or banking) or a storehouse. In English, depot can mean any one of a number of things, with minor variances between the different English-speaking countries:
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Maps, Directions, and Place Reviews
Transport
- Transport hub for freight
- Motive power depot, where trains and trams are sheltered and eventually maintained when not in use
- Propellant depot, which supplies fuel to spacecraft
- Castaway depot, contains stores and survival gear for victims of shipwrecks
- A train depot, where mainly locomotives are sheltered and repaired
- Used as a part of railway station's name, because the same place was previously or still is being used as a train shelter and naturally became a railway station as well (e.g. Boise Union Pacific Depot)
- Bus garage or 'bus depot', where buses are sheltered when not in use
- Used as a part of bus station's name (e.g. Ang Mo Kio Bus Depot)
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Technology
- An application in the Radio Service Software
- The format for Hewlett-Packard's Software Distributor
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Military
- Regimental depot, the headquarters and training grounds of a regiment
- Main Operating Base, an overseas base for the US military
- Logistics center
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Pharma
- Depot injection, long-term drug delivery by an injection formation (typically 2 weeks - 6 months)
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Other
- Depot, Poland, a village
- RCMP Academy, Depot Division, in Saskatchewan, Canada
- Maxwell Street Depot, a restaurant in Chicago, United States
- The Home Depot, an American home improvement retail chain
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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