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mem⋅o⋅ry

  [mem-uh-ree]
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–noun, plural -ries.
1. the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences.
2. this faculty as possessed by a particular individual: to have a good memory.
3. the act or fact of retaining and recalling impressions, facts, etc.; remembrance; recollection: to draw from memory.
4. the length of time over which recollection extends: a time within the memory of living persons.
5. a mental impression retained; a recollection: one's earliest memories.
6. the reputation of a person or thing, esp. after death; fame: a ruler of beloved memory.
7. the state or fact of being remembered.
8. a person, thing, event, fact, etc., remembered.
9. commemorative remembrance; commemoration: a monument in memory of Columbus.
10. the ability of certain materials to return to an original shape after deformation.
11. Also called computer memory, storage. Computers.
a. the capacity of a computer to store information subject to recall.
b. the components of the computer in which such information is stored.
12. Rhetoric. the step in the classical preparation of a speech in which the wording is memorized.
13. Cards. concentration (def. 7).
Origin:
1275–1325; ME memorie < L memoria, equiv. to memor mindful, remembering + -ia -y 3

con⋅cen⋅tra⋅tion

  [kon-suhn-trey-shuhn]
–noun
1. the act of concentrating; the state of being concentrated.
2. exclusive attention to one object; close mental application.
3. something concentrated: a concentration of stars.
4. Military.
a. the assembling of military or naval forces in a particular area in preparation for further operations.
b. a specified intensity and duration of artillery fire placed on a small area.
5. the focusing of a student's academic program on advanced study in a specific subject or field.
6. Chemistry. (in a solution) a measure of the amount of dissolved substance contained per unit of volume.
7. Also called memory. Cards. a game in which all 52 cards are spread out face down on the table and each player in turn exposes two cards at a time and replaces them face down if they do not constitute a pair, the object being to take the most pairs by remembering the location of the cards previously exposed.
Origin:
1625–35; concentr(ic) + -ation
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mem·o·ry   (měm'ə-rē)   
n.   pl. mem·o·ries
  1. The mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experience.
  2. The act or an instance of remembering; recollection: spent the afternoon lost in memory.
  3. All that a person can remember: It hasn't happened in my memory.
  4. Something remembered: pleasant childhood memories.
  5. The fact of being remembered; remembrance: dedicated to their parents' memory.
  6. The period of time covered by the remembrance or recollection of a person or group of persons: within the memory of humankind.
  7. Biology Persistent modification of behavior resulting from an animal's experience.
  8. Computer Science
    1. A unit of a computer that preserves data for retrieval.
    2. Capacity for storing information: two gigabytes of memory.
  9. Statistics The set of past events affecting a given event in a stochastic process.
  10. The capacity of a material, such as plastic or metal, to return to a previous shape after deformation.
  11. Immunology The ability of the immune system to respond faster and more powerfully to subsequent exposure to an antigen.

[Middle English memorie, from Anglo-French, from Latin memoria, from memor, mindful; see (s)mer-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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memory   (měm'ə-rē)  Pronunciation Key 
    1. The ability to remember past experiences or learned information, involving advanced mental processes such as learning, retention, recall, and recognition and resulting from chemical changes between neurons in several different areas of the brain, including the hippocampus. Immediate memory lasts for just a few seconds. Short-term memory stores information that has been minimally processed and is available only for a few minutes, as in remembering a phone number just long enough to use it. Short-term memory is transferred into long-term memory, which can last for many years, only when repeated use of the information facilitates neurochemical changes that allow it to be retained. The loss of memory because of disease or injury is called amnesia.
    2. The collection of information gained from past learning or experience that is stored in a person's mind.
    3. A piece of information, such as the mental image of an experience, that is stored in the memory.
    4. A part of a computer in which data is stored for later use.
    5. The capacity of a computer, chips, and storage devices to preserve data and programs for retrieval. Memory is measured in bytes. See more at hard disk, RAM, ROM.
    1. A part of a computer in which data is stored for later use.
    2. The capacity of a computer, chips, and storage devices to preserve data and programs for retrieval. Memory is measured in bytes. See more at hard disk, RAM, ROM.
  3. The capacity of a material, such as plastic or metal, to return to a previous shape or condition.
  4. The capacity of the immune system to produce a specific immune response to an antigen it has previously encountered.

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Language Translation for : memories
Spanish: memoria,
German: das Gedächtnis,
Japanese: 記憶力
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