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mem·o·ry 
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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.
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| 12. | Rhetoric. the step in the classical preparation of a speech in which the wording is memorized. |
| 13. | Cards. concentration (def. 7). |
| Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006. |
memory
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n. pl. mem·o·ries
[Middle English memorie, from Anglo-French, from Latin memoria, from memor, mindful; see (s)mer-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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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| 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" |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
memory1 [ˈmeməri] noun — plural ˈmemories
the power to remember things
Example: a good memory for details
memory2 [ˈmeməri] nounExample: a good memory for details
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the mind's store of remembered things
Example: Her memory is full of interesting stories.
memory3 [ˈmeməri] nounExample: Her memory is full of interesting stories.
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something remembered
Example: memories of her childhood
memory4 [ˈmeməri] nounExample: memories of her childhood
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the time as far back as can be remembered
Example: the greatest fire in memory
memory5 [ˈmeməri] nounExample: the greatest fire in memory
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a part of computer in which information is stored for immediate use; a computer with 8 megabytes of memory
See also: memorize, memorise, from memory, in memory of / to the memory of
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
memory
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| The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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)
| The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe |
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.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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