making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand; "an inventory may be necessary to see if anything is missing"; "they held an inventory every month"
a detailed list of all the items in stock
(accounting) the value of a firm's current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods
make or include in an itemized record or report; "Inventory all books before the end of the year"
a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons)
(computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics