| | Facts about topic: (Reservoir) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | A reservoir (French (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) : réservoir) is an artificial lake (A body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land) created by flooding land behind a dam (A barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea). |
| | In thermodynamics (The branch of physics concerned with the conversion of different forms of energy) a reservoir is something that can be the source or sink for the transfer of heat into or out of a system, without appreciably changing its own temperature. |
| | A reservoir can also be any container for storing a reserve (generally of a liquid), such as the ink reservoir of a dip pen (additional info and facts about dip pen), or that which is stored, as in "retirees are an untapped reservoir of talent". |
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