flat store

Example Sentences

• "He had told me that in the old days in Chicago he had run a flat-store with a partner who had tuberculosis and also smoked cigars."
• "In shared-memory languages for parallel programming, the model is one of a global flat store equipped with various synchronization primitives."
• "The PDC uses the AD but exposes the data as a flat store, as in Windows NT."
• "2001: Elizabeth A. Wheeler, Uncontained: Urban Fiction in Postwar America, p139 (The Rutgers University Press; →ISBN (10), →ISBN (13)); quoting an unknown source “It sat on the top of a steep, unpaved hill and commanded an uninspiring view of clean, gray concrete that was six lanes wide and an assortment of boxy, flat store buildings and spacious super gas-stations” (117)."
• "These systems are often cheaper to install than conventional horizontal ducting and have the advantage over above-floor ducts that they are unlikely to be damaged by tractors unloading the flat store."
• "It is sometimes necessary to provide storage for grain beyond the normal capacity of an elevator facility or elsewhere. In such conditions a relatively inexpensive expedient is the flat store. This is little more than a cover for a pile of dry grain adopting its natural form as poured."