an usu illustrated periodical, bound in paper covers, containing miscellaneous pieces by different authors
a television or radio programme containing a number of usu topical items, often without a common theme
a storeroom for arms, ammunition, or explosives
a holder from which cartridges can be fed into a gun chamber automatically
a lightproof chamber for films or plates in a camera or for film in a film projector
a storeroom for arms, ammunition, or explosives, e.g. gunpowder
a stock of arms and ammunition
early French magazine via Old Provençal from Arabic makhāzin, pl of makhzan storehouse. From its original meaning ‘storehouse’ the word was used in book titles in the 17th cent. to suggest a store of information, giving rise in the 18th cent. to its chief current meaning of a periodical