Depot may refer to:
Places
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Depot, Poland, a village
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Depot Glacier (disambiguation)
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Depot Island (disambiguation)
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Depot Nunatak
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Depot Peak
Brands and enterprises
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Maxwell Street Depot, a restaurant in Chicago, United States
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Office Depot, an American office supply chain
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The Home Depot
The Home Depot, Inc., often referred to as Home Depot, is an American multinational corporation, multinational home improvement retail corporation that sells tools, construction products, appliances, and services, including fuel and transportat ...
, an American home improvement retail chain
Computing and technology
* Depot, an application in the
Radio Service Software
* Depot, the format for Hewlett-Packard's
Software Distributor
Software Distributor (SD) is the Hewlett-Packard company's name for their HP-UX software package management system.
SD provides a set of tools for creating packages that will install software on a system running the HP-UX operating system. The pa ...
Military
* Depot, or
logistics center
* Depot, or
Main Operating Base, an overseas base for the US military
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Regimental depot, the headquarters and training grounds of a regiment
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Supply depot
Supply depots are a type of military installation used by militaries to store battlefield supplies temporarily on or near the front lines until they can be distributed to military units. Supply depots are responsible for nearly all other types of ...
Transport
* Depot, a
transport hub
A transport hub is a place where passengers and cargo are exchanged between vehicles and/or between mode of transport, transport modes. Public transport hubs include train station, railway stations, metro station, rapid transit stations, bus ...
for freight
* Train depot or
train shed
A train shed is a building adjacent to a station building where the tracks and platforms of a railway station are covered by a roof. It is also known as an overall roof. Its primary purpose is to store and protect from the elements train car ...
, a place where locomotives and rolling stock are sheltered and maintained when not in use
* Bus depot or
bus garage
A bus garage, also known as a bus depot, bus base or bus barn, is a facility where buses are stored and maintained. In many conurbations, bus garages are on the site of former car barns or tram sheds, where trams (streetcars) were stored, a ...
, a place where buses are sheltered and maintained when not in use
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Bus station
A bus station, bus depot, or bus interchange is a structure where city buses or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers. A bus station is larger than a bus stop, which is usually simply a place on the roadside, where buses can st ...
, whose name can include the word ''depot,'' because a bus depot or garage can be, or previously was, a bus stop or terminal
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Castaway depot, contains stores and survival gear for victims of shipwrecks
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Motive power depot, where trains, locomotives, or trams are sheltered and maintained when not in use
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Train station
A train station, railroad station, or railway station is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight, or both. It generally consists of at least one platform, one track, and a station building providing suc ...
, whose name can include the word ''depot'', because the same place was previously, or still is, being used as a train shelter, and naturally became a railway station as well
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Propellant depot, which supplies fuel to spacecraft
Other uses
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Depot injection
A depot injection, also known as a long-acting injectable (LAI), is a term for an injection formulation of a medication which releases slowly over time to permit less frequent administration of a medication. They are designed to increase medic ...
, in pharma, a long-term drug delivery by an injection formation (typically 2 weeks - 6 months)
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RCMP Academy, Depot Division, in Saskatchewan, Canada
See also
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Depot Historic District (disambiguation)
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The Depot (disambiguation)
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