In contemporary usage, memory is usually semiconductor storage read-write random-access memory, typically DRAM ( Dynamic-RAM ) or other forms of fast but temporary storage.

Hardware implements cache as a block of memory for temporary storage of data likely to be used again.

Special rstack manipulation functions provided by the kernel allow it to be used for temporary storage within a word, but otherwise it cannot be used to pass parameters or manipulate data.

Grid energy storage ( or large-scale energy storage ) lets energy producers send excess electricity over the electricity transmission grid to temporary electricity storage sites that become energy producers when electricity demand is greater.

Thermal storage is the temporary storage or removal of heat for later use.

The dump, at whose head the D register points, is used as temporary storage for values of the other registers, for example during function calls.

These were backed by a set of sixty-four registers each for S and A temporary storage known as T and B respectively, which could not be seen by the functional units.

A disk array typically has cache ( temporary memory storage that is faster than the magnetic disks ), as well as advanced functions like RAID and storage virtualization.

From this, the term " Mojave " has come to refer to the temporary storage of aircraft, e. g. during decreased demand for air travel and between short-term leases.

Working memory involves the temporary storage of information ' in mind ', while processing the same or other information.

The non-blocking assignment allows designers to describe a state-machine update without needing to declare and use temporary storage variables.

Some grounds have purpose-built temporary storage in the form of a cavity beneath the pitch, approximately 1m x 1m x 1m in size, accessed through a hatch flush with the grass, which can be used for storing a helmet, shin pads or drinks for the fielding side.

At the start of the cycle, the rectal ampulla ( anatomically also: ampulla recti ) acts as a temporary storage facility for the unneeded material.

Due to the employees alleged rough handling of the device, which he claimed was soundly attached to his head, the temporary storage buffer in the computer system could not longer be overwritten by new images, the damage to the system thus causing photos of these persons to remain stored in the glass memory.

A test tube with a stopper is often used for temporary storage of chemical or biological samples.

The Department of Energy ( DOE ) estimates that it has over 100 million U. S. gallons of highly radioactive waste and of spent fuel from the production of nuclear weapons and from research activities in temporary storage.

To keep these plants operating, it may be necessary to construct a temporary facility at the Yucca Mountain site or somewhere else in the United States if opening of the underground storage continues to be delayed.

Using the XOR swap algorithm to exchange nibble s between variables without the use of temporary storage

Conventional swapping requires the use of a temporary storage variable.

Using the XOR swap algorithm, however, no temporary storage is needed.

The so-called Erdut Agreement made the area a temporary protectorate of the UN Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium.

Modeling that compares the effects of albedo differences between forests and grasslands suggests that expanding the land area of forests in temperate zones offers only a temporary cooling benefit.

In September 1993, the IETF created a temporary, ad-hoc IP Next Generation ( IPng ) area to deal specifically with IPng issues.

The skamma was simply a temporary area dug up for that occasion and not something that remained over time.

* May 23 – Jamestown, Virginia: Acting as temporary Governor, Thomas Gates, along with John Rolfe, Captain Ralph Hamor, Sir George Somers, and other survivors from the Sea Venture ( wrecked at Bermuda ) arrive at Jamestown ; they find that 60 have survived the " starving time " ( winter ), the fort palizadoes and gates have been torn down, and empty houses have been used for firewood, in fear of attacks by natives outside the fort area.

This finding is significant because it has been found that, though lesions to Broca's area alone can possibly cause temporary speech disruption, they do not result in severe speech arrest.

* San Francisco ( 318 ) – San Francisco required the special area code 318 for temporary routing requirements

The rulers of the competing island states of Ternate and Tidore also sought Portuguese assistance and the newcomers were welcomed in the area as buyers of supplies and spices during a lull in the regional trade due to the temporary disruption of Javanese and Malay sailings to the area following the 1511 conflict in Malacca.

A cofferdam is a ( usually temporary ) barrier constructed to exclude water from an area that is normally submerged.

Tanshihuai found a temporary solution when he sacked the area of modern Jilin province.

An area of the site is reduced leaving arbitrary, temporary sections as a form of stratigraphic control to provide early warning of " digging out of phase ".

A truce or ceasefire usually refers to a temporary cessation of hostilities for an agreed limited time or within a limited area.

The NHL vetoed the move since the Brendan Byrne Arena was still being built, and there was no suitable temporary facility in the area.

Years later, during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency used land near the airport as a staging area for manufactured homes intended for transport as temporary housing for hurricane victims.

As of July 2012, the area at the foot of church of Saint-Eustache is once again upturned earth, broken concrete and temporary construction walls, as construction on a new public green space atop the shopping center is underway.

When he had reduced the whole area of land between the River Iberus and the Pyrenees to a hollow, resentful, and temporary obedience, he turned his attention to administrative reforms, and increased the revenues of the province by improvements in the working of the iron and silver mines.

The majority of longtime members cancelled their memberships as a form of protest to the deal. The current management believes that once a new and much smaller gym is built without a track and other amenities the old YMCA had, revenue will come from temporary and seasonal memberships that they can get from local students around the area.

During the final weeks of the American Civil War, heavy rains created crevasses in the West Baton Rouge Parish levee, and flood waters overflowed the area, bringing a temporary halt to military skirmishes.

This also created a large recreational area which brought new businesses, temporary summer residents and tourists and hundreds of new permanent residents building new homes along the new lake.

The area was so popular with prospecters that at one time the temporary post office of Goldville handled more mail in a day than New York City.

Depredation is likely a temporary solution as the County has had to kill beaver families two years in a row and Peter Kraatz, deputy director of the Placer County Department of Public Works, conceded that the area is " perfect habitat for beavers ".

Before it was permanently settled, the Ramona area was inhabited by Digueno semi-nomadic people, who established temporary settlements there as they moved between coastal and inland grounds.

After quake and subsequent fire destroyed many San Franciscans homes, they left to temporary housing on the ranches of the area to the south, including the large one owned by John Daly.

During the French and Iroquois Wars, the Iroquois expanded westward and maintained a temporary presence in the area, having displaced other tribes.