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MAGAZINE

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 301 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAGAZINE  , primarily a warehouse for goods or merchandise (Arab. makhzan, a storehouse, from khazana, to

store up) . In
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Morocco makhzan (or maghzen) has come to be used as the name of the government . The Spaniards adopted the Arabic in the form magacen, and the
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English form comes through the older French magazin,
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modern magasin . The meaning of a storehouse or large
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shop,
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common in French, is rare in English except in the military use of the
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term for a
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building for the storage of
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explosives and
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ammunition . It is applied to the chamber of a repeating
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rifle or machine-
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gun containing the supply of cartridges . The name as applied to a periodical publication containing articles on various subjects was first used in the Gentleman's Magazine (1731), described as " a monthly collection, to treasure up as in a magazine " articles on the subjects with which it was proposed to
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deal .

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