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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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Word Origin & History

memory 
c.1250, from Anglo-Fr. memorie, from L. memoria, from memor "mindful, remembering," from PIE base *men-/*mon- "think." Computer sense is from 1946.
"I am grown old and my memory is not as active as it used to be. When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it." [Mark Twain]
Memorize is 1591 in sense of "commit to writing," the mental meaning is from 1838.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: con·cen·tra·tion
Pronunciation: "kän(t)-s&n-'trA-sh&n, -"sen-
Function: noun
1 : the act or action ofconcentrating: as a : a directing of the attention or of the mental faculties toward a single object b : an increasing of strength (as of a solute or a gas in amixture) or a purifying by partial or total removal of diluents, solvents, admixed gases, extraneous material, or waste (as by evaporation or diffusion)
2 : a crude activeprinciple of a vegetable especially for pharmaceutical use in the form of a powder or resin
3 : the relative content of a component (as dissolved or dispersed material) of asolution, mixture, or dispersion that may be expressed in percentage by weight or by volume, in parts per million, or in grams per liter

Main Entry: mem·o·ry
Pronunciation: 'mem-(&-)rE
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -ries
1 a : the power orprocess of reproducing or recalling what has been learned and retained especially through associative mechanisms b : the store of things learned and retained from an organism'sactivity or experience as indicated by modification of structure or behavior or by recall and recognition
2 : a capacity for showing effects as the result of past treatment or forreturning to a former condition —used especially of a material (as metal or plastic)
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Medical Dictionary

concentration con·cen·tra·tion (kŏn'sən-trā'shən)
n.

  1. An increase of the strength of a pharmaceutical preparation by the extraction, precipitation, and drying of its crude active agent.

  2. An increase in the strength of a fluid or gas in a mixture by purification, evaporation, or diffusion.

  3. The amount of a specified substance in a unit amount of another substance.

memory mem·o·ry (měm'ə-rē)
n.

  1. The mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experience based on the mental processes of learning, retention, recall, and recognition.

  2. Persistent modification of behavior resulting from experience.

  3. The capacity of a material, such as plastic or metal, to return to a previous shape after deformation.

  4. The capability of the immune system to produce a specific secondary response to an antigen it has previously encountered.

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