MAGAZINE

noun Etymology: Middle French, from Old Occitan, from Arabic makhāzin, plural of makhzan storehouse Date: 1583 a place where goods or supplies are stored ; warehouse , a room in which powder and other explosives are kept in a fort or a ship, the contents of a ~: as, an accumulation of munitions of war, a stock of provisions or goods, 4. a periodical containing miscellaneous pieces (as articles, stories, poems) and often illustrated, a similar section of a newspaper usually appearing on Sunday, a radio or television program presenting usually several short segments on a variety of topics, a supply chamber: as, a holder in or on a gun for cartridges to be fed into the gun chamber, a lightproof chamber for films or plates on a camera or for film on a motion-picture projector