depot

noun

Etymology: From French dépôt, from Old French depost, from Medieval Latin dēpositum, from Latin, participle of dēpōnō, dēpōnere. Doublet of deposit.

1. A storage facility, in particular, a warehouse.

   “Near-synonyms: depository, repository”

   “Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.”

2. A storage space for public transport and other vehicles where they can be maintained and from which they are dispatched for service.
3. A bus station or railway station.
4. A place where recruits are assembled before being sent to active units.
5. A place for the storage, servicing, or upgrade of military hardware.
6. The portion of a regiment that remains at home when the rest go on foreign service.
7. A bolus of medication that remains sequestered in some particular site within the body, often intradermally, from which it is gradually absorbed.

   “depot injection”

8. The tableau: the area where cards can be arranged in solitaire or patience games.