memory
/ˈmɛm.ə.ɹi/ noun
Forms memories memorie
- noun (uncountable) The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later, usually at will. “Memory is a facility common to all animals.”
- noun A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by an organism. “I have no memory of that event.”
- noun (computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM). “This data passes from the CPU to the memory.”
- noun The time within which past events can be or are remembered. “in recent memory”
- noun (attributive) Of a material, which returns to its original shape when heated. “memory metal”
- noun (obsolete) A memorial.
- noun Synonym of pelmanism (“memory card game”).
- noun (zoology, collective, rare) A term of venery for a social group of elephants, normally called a herd.
Synonyms
recall retention recollection core pelmanism rememoration reminiscence remembering retentiveness retentivity computer memory storage computer storage store memory board
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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 at mimmer. Doublet of memoir and memoria. Displaced native Old English myne (whence English min) and Old English ġemynd, which took on a different meaning as modern mind.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.
- noun The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.
Etymology [OE. memorie, OF. memoire, memorie, F. mémoire, L. memoria, fr. memor mindful; cf. mora delay. Cf. Demur, Martyr, Memoir, Remember.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “memory”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details