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memory

Pronunciation: /ˈmɛm.ə.ɹi/

The English word “memory” has 8 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later, usually at will.
  2. A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by an organism.
  3. The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).
  4. The time within which past events can be or are remembered.
  5. Of a material, which returns to its original shape when heated.
  6. A memorial.
  7. Synonym of pelmanism (“memory card game”).
  8. A term of venery for a social group of elephants, normally called a herd.

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman memorie, Old French memoire etc., from Latin memoria (“the faculty of remembering, remembrance, memory, a historical account”), from memor (“mindful, remembering”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (to remember), related to Ancient Greek μνήμη (mnḗmē, “memory”) μέρμερος (mérmeros, “anxious”), μέριμνα (mérimna, “care, thought”), Old English ġemimor (“mindful, remembering”). More…

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