メモリ

See also: めもり

Japanese

Alternative forms

• メモリー (memorī)

Etymology

Borrowed from English memory.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) メ​モリ [méꜜmòrì] (Atamadaka – [1])
• (Tokyo) メモリ [mèmórí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [me̞mo̞ɾʲi]

Noun

メモリ • (memori) 

1. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) (informal, of an organism) (a) memory, recollection
2. (computing) memory

   メモリを食(く)う

   memori o kuu

   to eat up memory (substantially occupy RAM)

   • 1999 September 16, Motohiro Katou, “ヤコブの階(かい)段(だん) [Jacob’s Stairway]”, in Ｑ.(キュー)Ｅ.(イー)Ｄ.(ディー) 証(しょう)明(めい)終(しゅう)了(りょう) (Ｑ.(キュー)Ｅ.(イー)Ｄ.(ディー) 証(しょう)明(めい)終(しゅう)了(りょう)) [Q.E.D. Quod Erat Demonstrandum], volume 4 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 151:

     メモリっていうのはコンピュータの中(なか)の作(さ)業(ぎょう)机(づくえ)みたいなもので‥‥

     Memori tte iu no wa konpyūta no naka no sagyōzukue mitai na mono de‥‥

     Memory is sorta like a working desk inside a computer...

Synonyms

• (recollection): 記(き)憶(おく) (kioku), 思(おも)い出(で) (omoide), 記(き)念(ねん) (kinen)
• (computer memory): 記(き)憶(おく)装(そう)置(ち) (kioku sōchi)

Related terms

• (computer memory): ランダムアクセスメモリ (randamu akusesu memori, “random-access memory”), リードオンリーメモリ (rīdo onrī memori, “read-only memory”)