memory
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See also me morí
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[edit] 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”), related to Ancient Greek μνήμη (mneme, “memory”) μέρμερος (mermeros, “anxious”), μέριμνα (merimna, “care, thought”).
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[edit] Noun
memory (countable and uncountable; plural memories)
- (uncountable) The ability of an organism to record information about things or events with the facility of recalling them later at will.
- Memory is a facility common to all animals.
- (Can we date this quote?) Albert Schweitzer
- Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.
- I have no memory of that event.
- (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.
- The time within which past events can be or are remembered.
- in recent memory; in living memory
[edit] Synonyms
- (ability to recall): recall
- (stored record): recall, recollection
- (RAM or ROM): core (old-fashioned)
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Terms derived from memory
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ability to recall
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stored record
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RAM or ROM
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Most common English words before 1923: Greek · island · special · #935: memory · proved · plan · pain
