Memory

Definition: Memory

Memory

Noun

1. Something that is remembered; "search as he would, the memory was lost".

2. The cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered; "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father".

3. The power of retaining and recalling past experience; "he had a good memory when he was younger".

4. An electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached".

5. The area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes; "he taught a graduate course on learning and memory".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "memory" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Memory \Mem"o*ry\, noun; plural Memories. [Old English memorie, Old French memoire, memorie, French m['e]moire, Latin memoria, from memor mindful; compare to mora delay. Compare to Demur, Martyr, Memoir, Remember.]. (references)

Computing

Aerospace

Electrical Engineering

Engineering & Technology

Health

Literature

Post & Telecom

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Synonyms: Memory

Identification

Noun: identification, recognition, diagnosis, match; apperception, assimilation; dereplication; classification; memory; interpretation; cognizance (knowledge).

The Past

Retrospect, retrospection, looking back, memory. -- originally - preterition; priority; --

Crosswords: Memory

They are cries that once heard, can never be erased from the memory. On this one night those cries belonged to my friend John, when guard Ferguson paid him a visit (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson)

Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben)

When was the last time you remember seeing it? And I'm not talking about some distant, half-forgotten childhood memory, I mean like yesterday (Dark City; writing credit: Alex Proyas)

Refresh my memory. What gold are we talking about (Shanghai Knights; writing credit: Alfred Gough; Miles Millar)

I suffer from short term memory loss (Finding Nemo; writing credit: Andrew Stanton)

To drown a memory (Don't Rock The Jukebox; performing artist: Alan Jackson)

I see a memory I never realized (Mandy; performing artist: Barry Manilow)

He say, Son can you play me a memory ("Piano Man"; performing artist: Billy Joel)

I couldn't escape the memory (Run-Around; performing artist: Blues Traveler)

And I banished every memory you and I had ever made (It's all coming back to me now; performing artist: Celine Dion)

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. (references; author: Mark Twain)

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (references; author: unknown)

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. (references; author: unknown)

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film. (references; author: unknown)

No happy time is really gone if it leaves a special memory. (references; author: unknown)

Memory of Us (1974)

A Memory of Two Mondays (1974)

Triumph of Memory (1972)

Memory Game (1971)

Hauser's Memory (1970)

Set Adrift On Memory Bliss (performing artist: P.M. Dawn)

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References

• Dane-Elec Memory: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Topical Memory System Package: Hide God's Word in Your Heart (reference)

• The Memory Bible: An Innovative Strategy for Keeping Your Brain Young (reference)

• The Absent-Minded Professor's Memory Book (reference)

• Witness for the Defense: The Accused, the Eyewitness and the Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial (reference)

• To Acknowledge a War: The Korean War in American Memory (Contributions in Military Studies) (reference)

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Periodicals

• History And Memory (reference)

• Memory Makers Magazine (reference)

• Optical Memory & Neural Networks (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 - Stardust Memory (Vol. 4) (reference)

• Farscape #10 - Nerve/The Hidden Memory (reference)

• Katherine Anne Porter: The Eye of Memory (reference)

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Music

• Direct Memory Access, Vol. 2 (reference)

• Maps of Memory (reference)

• Memory Barge (reference)

• In Memory of Michael Bloomfield (reference)

• Distributed Shared Memory (reference)

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High Tech

• 2 Pack 15 Block Memory Card (reference)

• JVC GRDV3000U MiniDV Digital Cybercam with 3.5" LCD, 16 MB SD Memory Card & High Res Color Viewfinder (reference)

• Sony DCRPC101 MiniDV Compact Camcorder w/ 2.5" LCD, and 8 MB Memory Stick (reference)

• Sony DCRTRV340 Digital8 Camcorder w/ 2.5" LCD USB Streaming, & Memory Stick capability (reference)

• 8 MB Memory Card for PlayStation2 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• TANITA BF-625 Duo Memory Body Fat Analyzer / Scale (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Massasoit, protector and preserver of the Pilgrims. Statue erected in his memory at Plymouth. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship STIRNI. This ship was named in memory of Lt. (j.g.) Joseph Stirni, USC&GS, who was killed while a Japanese prisoner of war in 1945. He was killed by a U. S. bomb hitting the ship he was being transported to Japan on from the Philippine Islands. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

A meal as appetizing as this one may prove memorable indeed, especially if your memory is jogged by the new food-survey techniques described in the cover story, entitled, "Was It A Slab, a Slice, or a Sliver?" P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Peggy Greb..

Medallion in Memory of Samuel Glasgow Armor, A.M., M.D., LLD. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Keep Measles A Memory - Immunize!. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Memorial tablet in the Chapel at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, dedicated to the memory of officers and men of USS Trenton, USS Vandalia and USS Nipsic who lost their lives in the storm. Photographed circa the early 1900s or earlier. Credit: NAVY.

U.S. Army Private First Class Felix A. Uva (left) and Corporal Donald A. Purdy examine a memorial plaque on the cruiser's main deck, while they were being transported to the United States from Europe as part of Operation "Magic Carpet" in November 1945. This plaque was presented to the ship by the citizens of Boise, Idaho, in memory of the 107 crewmembers who lost their lives in the Battle of Cape Esperance, 11-12 October 1942. Note kapok life jackets worn by the Soldiers. Credit: NAVY.

A memory, Durham / [by] CG. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sketch of a vase from Homeric Troy (from memory) / [by] CG. Credit: Library of Congress.

On to the charge! Inscribed to the memory of Major Ringgold . . . . Credit: Library of Congress.

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This I am sure, their civil policy is so new, so dangerous, and so destructive to both rulers and people, that as former ages never could bear the broaching of it; so it may be hoped, those to come, redeemed from the impositions of these Egyptian under-taskmasters, will abhor the memory of such servile flatterers, who, whilst it seemed to serve their turn, resolved all government into absolute tyranny, and would have all men born to, what their mean souls fitted them for, slavery. (Second Treatise of Government)

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Nor can I break the silken knot That binds my memory to the spot And friends too dear to be forgot

Her mind, and especially her memory.

Ransack your memory for something which Paris has not.

He could not summon them to his memory.

And he came back to the ditch camp with his memory crowded

And thus in a few days, by the help of a very faithful memory, I got some insight into their language

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us; leaving nothing but a memory of the smell of smoke and a presumption that our eyes once watered

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Health

Essential to memory storage. (references)

The young woman's memory was correct. (references)

Declines in verbal memory also may be an early marker. (references)

Business

The latest decoders have the memory capacity to support interactive television. (references)

In the memory market sector, DRAMs dominate sales, comprising 70 percent of demand. (references)

In 1999, Taiwan firms led the memory market sector with a share of over 50 percent. (references)

Economic History

Turkey

There has been no attempt at a hostile takeover by either international or domestic parties in recent memory. (references)

Ghana

After a period of strained relations in the mid-1980s, U.S.-Ghanaian official relations are stronger than at any other time in recent memory. (references)

Australia

There is always strong interest from Australian resellers and distributors for new sources of PC memory, video and sound cards, and storage devices. (references)

Human Rights

Mongolia

Each September, the Government pays public respects to the memory of victims of political repression from 1922 through the 1960s. Since 1991, more than 30,000 persons have been absolved of accusations leveled against them. (references)

Iran

A November 1995 law criminalized dissent and applied the death penalty to offenses such as "attempts against the security of the State, outrage against high-ranking Iranian officials, and insults against the memory of Imam Khomeini and against the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic." U.N. representatives, including the UNSR, and independent human rights organizations, continue to note the absence of procedural safeguards in criminal trials. (references)

Political Economy

Argentina

On the other hand, the public's memory of decades of increasing economic chaos culminating in the hyper-inflationary episodes of 1989-90 is still vivid. (references)

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Memory of the Lord

Expressions using "memory": a tenacious memory ♦ associative memory ♦ associative Memory Parallel Processing Language ♦ auditive memory ♦ base memory ♦ bring back to the memory ♦ bubble memory ♦ buffer memory ♦ buffering memory ♦ burden the memory with ♦ burn into memory ♦ burst Static Random Access Memory ♦ by memory ♦ cache memory ♦ call to memory ♦ CCD memory ♦ central memory ♦ Chakra cellular memory healing ♦ childhood memory ♦ commit memory ♦ commit smth. to memory ♦ commit to memory ♦ committal to memory ♦ committed to memory ♦ computer memory unit ♦ connection random access memory ♦ content addressable memory ♦ conventional memory ♦ core memory ♦ direct Memory Access ♦ disk memory ♦ distributed memory ♦ double Data Rate Random Access Memory ♦ double Data Rate Synchronous Random Access Memory ♦ draw on one's memory ♦ dwell in one's memory ♦ dynamic memory ♦ dynamic random access memory ♦ edo memory ♦ effects memory ♦ enhanced Dynamic Random Access Memory ♦ episodic memory ♦ error correcting memory ♦ expanded memory ♦ expanded memory manager ♦ expanded memory page frame ♦ expanded Memory Specification ♦ extended Data Out Dynamic Random Access Memory ♦ extended Data Out Random Access Memory ♦ extended memory ♦ extended memory manager ♦ extended Memory Specification ♦ external memory ♦ eye memory ♦ fast Page Mode Dynamic Random Access Memory ♦ ferrite core memory ♦ ferroelectric Random Access Memory ♦ fillip smb.'s memory ♦ first in first out memory ♦ fixed memory ♦ flash across the memory ♦ flash memory ♦ from memory ♦ global memory ♦ good memory ♦ have a bad memory ♦ have a good memory ♦ have a memory ♦ having a good memory ♦ high memory area ♦ holographic memory ♦ if my memory serves right ♦ immediate memory ♦ Immunologic Memory ♦ immunological memory ♦ in memory of ♦ in the memory of ♦ inscribe to smb.'s memory ♦ insufficient memory ♦ intermediate memory ♦ jog memory ♦ jog smb.'s memory ♦ keep alive the memory of smb. ♦ keep smb.'s memory green ♦ keep up the memory of ♦ lapse of memory ♦ load the memory with ♦ lose one's memory ♦ loss of memory ♦ main memory ♦ memory access ♦ memory address space ♦ memory aid ♦ memory bank ♦ memory board ♦ memory bounds checking ♦ memory cache ♦ memory capacity ♦ memory capasity ♦ memory cell ♦ memory chip. Additional references.

Beginning with "memory": memory-aid, memory-album, memory-bank, memory-based, memory-boosting, memory-chip, memory-deficient, memory-depending, memory-discs, memory-enhancing, memory-failure, memory-how, memory-hungry, memory-image, memory-intensive, memory-jogger, memory-joggers, memory-laden, memory-lapse, memory-like, memory-making, memory-management, memory-mapped, memory-packed, memory-rapacious, memory-recordings, memory-resident, memory-residues, memory-size, memory-slate, memory-snatching, memory-taperecorder, memory-test, memory-tickling, Memory-toss, memory-training, memory-trigger, memory-turned-myth.

Ending with "memory": folk-memory.

Containing "memory": down-memory-lane, perception-image-memory-illusion, Processor-memory-switch.