memory stick

English

Etymology

From Memory Stick, a Sony brand name.

Noun

memory stick (plural memory sticks)

1. (computing) One of a series of memory devices manufactured by the Sony Corporation ranging in size from a USB drive down to a flash card.
2. (computing) A portable solid-state electronic flash memory data storage device equipped with a USB (or similarly specified) plug for direct connection to a corresponding port; a USB drive, thumb drive or pen drive.
   • 2003, Jon Hall, Paul G. Sery, Red Hat Linux Fedora For Dummies, page 343:

     The first step to increasing your drive space is to add a new storage device. It can be a hard drive (IDE or SCSI), but also a USB or FireWire memory stick.

   • 2008, Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, page 56:

     You might be wondering at this point what dark secrets I had locked away on my phone and memory sticks and email.

   • 2009, Steve Seguis, Windows PowerShell 2 For Dummies, unnumbered page:

     To do this, you can run a script on a computer periodically to check for any attached USB disk drives or memory sticks.

Synonyms

• (generic portable solid-state data storage device): data stick, pen drive, thumb drive, USB drive

Translations

memory card, flash card

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 記憶卡／记忆卡 (jìyìkǎ), 記憶棒／记忆棒 (jìyìbàng), 記憶條／记忆条 (jìyìtiáo)

• Dutch: Memory Stick m, geheugenstick (nl) m
• Esperanto: memorkarto
• Finnish: muistikortti (fi)
• French: carte mémoire (fr) f
• German: Speicherkarte (de) f, SD-Card f, Multimedia-Card f
• Greek: κάρτα μνήμης (el) f (kárta mnímis)
• Hebrew: כרטיס זיכרון (he) m (kartís zikarón)
• Hungarian: Memory Stick
• Japanese: メモリースティック (memorīsutikku)
• Korean: 메모리 스틱 (memori seutik)
• Norman: badgette dé mémouaithe f (Jersey)
• Persian: کارت حافظه (kârt e hâfeze)
• Polish: karta pamięci (pl) f
• Portuguese: cartão de memória (pt) m
• Russian: ка́рточка па́мяти f (kártočka pámjati), флеш-па́мять (ru) f (flɛš-pámjatʹ), флэш-па́мять (ru) f (flɛš-pámjatʹ), флеш-накопи́тель m (flɛš-nakopítelʹ), флэш-накопи́тель m (flɛš-nakopítelʹ)
• Spanish: Memory Stick f, tarjeta de memoria f
• Swedish: Memory Stick n
• Thai: หน่วยความจำ (th) (nùay kwaam jam), เมมโมรี่สติ๊ก (maymmohrêe sàtík)
• Turkish: bellek kartı, hafıza kartı
• Welsh: ffon gof (cy) f, cof bach m, cofbin m

portable solid-state flash memory storage device — see flash drive

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See also

• flashcard, flash card
• memory card