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mem·o·ry    Audio Help   [mem-uh-ree] Pronunciation Key
–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 -y3]
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mem·o·ry    Audio Help   (měm'ə-rē)  Pronunciation Key 
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 
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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memory

noun
1. something that is remembered; "search as he would, the memory was lost" 
2. the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered; "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father" 
3. the power of retaining and recalling past experience; "he had a good memory when he was younger" 
4. an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached" 
5. the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes; "he taught a graduate course on learning and memory" 

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memory1 [ˈmeməri] nounplural ˈmemories
the power to remember things
Example: a good memory for details
Arabic: ذاكِرَه، القُدْرَه على التَّذَكُّر
Chinese (Simplified): 记忆力
Chinese (Traditional): 記憶力
Czech: paměť
Danish: hukommelse
Dutch: geheugen
Estonian: mälu
Finnish: muisti
French: mémoire
German: das Gedächtnis
Greek: μνήμη, μνημονικό
Hungarian: emlékezőtehetség
Icelandic: minni
Indonesian: ingatan
Italian: memoria
Japanese: 記憶力
Latvian: atmiņa
Lithuanian: atmintis, atminimas
Norwegian: hukommelse
Polish: pamięć
Portuguese (Brazil): memória
Portuguese (Portugal): memória
Romanian: memorie
Russian: память
Slovak: pamäť
Slovenian: spomin
Spanish: memoria
Swedish: minne
Turkish: bellek, hafıza
memory2 [ˈmeməri] noun
the mind's store of remembered things
Example: Her memory is full of interesting stories.
Arabic: ذاكِرَه
Chinese (Simplified): 记忆
Chinese (Traditional): 記憶
Czech: paměť
Danish: hukommelse
Dutch: geheugen
Estonian: mälu
Finnish: muisti
French: mémoire
German: das Gedächtnis
Greek: μνήμη
Hungarian: emlékezet, memória
Icelandic: minni
Indonesian: ingatan
Italian: memoria
Japanese: 記憶
Latvian: atmiņa
Lithuanian: atmintis
Norwegian: minne, erindring
Polish: pamięć
Portuguese (Brazil): memória
Portuguese (Portugal): memória
Romanian: memorie
Russian: память
Slovak: pamäť
Slovenian: spomin
Spanish: memoria
Swedish: minne
Turkish: anı, hatıra
memory3 [ˈmeməri] noun
something remembered
Example: memories of her childhood
Arabic: ذِكْرى
Chinese (Simplified): 留在记忆中的事,回忆
Chinese (Traditional): 留在記憶中的事,回憶
Czech: vzpomínka
Danish: minde; erindring
Dutch: herinnering
Estonian: mälestus
Finnish: muisto
French: souvenir
German: die Erinnerung
Greek: ανάμνηση, θύμηση
Hungarian: emlék
Icelandic: minningar
Indonesian: kenangan
Italian: ricordo
Japanese: 思い出
Latvian: atmiņas
Lithuanian: prisiminimas
Norwegian: minne
Polish: wspomnienie
Portuguese (Brazil): recordação
Portuguese (Portugal): recordaçOes
Romanian: amintire
Russian: воспоминание
Slovak: spomienka, pamiatka
Slovenian: spomin
Spanish: recuerdo
Swedish: minne
Turkish: anı, hatıra
memory4 [ˈmeməri] noun
the time as far back as can be remembered
Example: the greatest fire in memory
Arabic: في الذّاكِرَه
Chinese (Simplified): 追想得起的年限
Chinese (Traditional): 追想得起的年限
Czech: doba, kam až paměť sahá
Danish: mands minde
Dutch: mensenheugenis
Estonian: inimmälestus
Finnish: miesmuistiin
French: de mémoire d'homme
German: das Gedenken
Greek: μνήμη
Hungarian: emberemlékezet óta
Icelandic: í manna minnum
Indonesian: kenangan
Italian: memoria
Japanese: 記憶の範囲
Latvian: atmiņa
Lithuanian: atmintis
Norwegian: i manns minne
Polish: pamięć
Portuguese (Brazil): lembrança
Portuguese (Portugal): lembrança
Romanian: care a fost vreo­dată
Russian: память
Slovak: pokiaľ pamäť siaha
Slovenian: kar ljudje pomnijo
Spanish: memoria del hombre, *de la humanidad
Swedish: mannaminne
Turkish: anı, hatıra
memory5 [ˈmeməri] noun
a part of computer in which information is stored for immediate use; a computer with 8 megabytes of memory
Chinese (Simplified): 存储器,内存
Chinese (Traditional): 存儲器,內存
Estonian: arvutimälu
Hungarian: memória(egység)
Russian: память
Turkish: hafıza
See also: memorize, memorise, from memory, in memory of / to the memory of

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memory    Audio Help   (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.
  1. The capacity of a material, such as plastic or metal, to return to a previous shape or condition.
  2. The capacity of the immune system to produce a specific immune response to an antigen it has previously encountered.

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memory storage
These days, usually used synonymously with Random Access Memory or Read-Only Memory, but in the general sense it can be any device that can hold data in machine-readable format.
(1996-05-25)

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Memory

Com*mem"o*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Commemorated; p. pr. & vb. n. Commemorating.] [L. commemoratus, p. p. of commemorare to remember; com- + memorare to mention, fr. memor mindful. See Memory.] To call to remembrance by a special act or observance; to celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or event, by some act of respect or affection, intended to preserve the remembrance of the person or event; as, to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our Savior by the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; to commemorate the Declaration of Independence by the observance of the Fourth of July.

We are called upon to commemorate a revolution. --Atterbury.

Syn: See Celebrate.
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