Depot

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Depot (/ˈdɛpoʊ/ DEP-oh or /ˈdiːpoʊ/ 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:

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)

Technology

• An application in the Radio Service Software
• The format for Hewlett-Packard's Software Distributor

Military

• Regimental depot, the headquarters and training grounds of a regiment
• Main Operating Base, an overseas base for the US military
• Logistics center

Other

• Depot, Poland, a village
• Depot injection, an injection to provide medicine over a long period of time
• RCMP Academy, Depot Division, in Saskatchewan, Canada
• Maxwell Street Depot in Chicago, United States

See also

• Depot Historic District (disambiguation)