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plural shelves
A flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk etc., and used to support, store or display objects. quotations examples
Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.
2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, retrieved 31 October 2012
The capacity of such an object examples
A projecting ledge that resembles such an object. examples
(computing) The part of a repository where shelvesets are stored. quotations examples
This is where the Visual Studio Shelving function can help. A shelf is a place on the server in source control that is separate from the main code line so it will not affect other developers.
2012, Bradley Irby, Reengineering .NET
A shelveset allows you to store a changeset on the server without adding it to the current codebase and sharing it with team members directly. Each team member has his own “shelf,” where he can store as many shelvesets as he wants.
2016, Wouter de Kort, DevOps on the Microsoft Stack, page 114
plural shelves or shelfs
A reef, shoal or sandbar. examples