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mem·o·ry  (mm-r)

n. pl. mem·o·ries

1. The mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experience.

2. The act or an instance of remembering; recollection: spent the afternoon lost in memory.

3. All that a person can remember: It hasn't happened in my memory.

4. Something remembered: pleasant childhood memories.

5. The fact of being remembered; remembrance: dedicated to their parents' memory.

6. The period of time covered by the remembrance or recollection of a person or group of persons: within the memory of humankind.

7. Biology Persistent modification of behavior resulting from an animal's experience.

8. Computer Science

a. A unit of a computer that preserves data for retrieval.

b. Capacity for storing information: two gigabytes of memory.

9. Statistics The set of past events affecting a given event in a stochastic process.

10. The capacity of a material, such as plastic or metal, to return to a previous shape after deformation.

11. Immunology The ability of the immune system to respond faster and more powerfully to subsequent exposure to an antigen.

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[Middle English memorie, from Anglo-French, from Latin memoria, from memor, mindful; see (s)mer-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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memory

Noun

pl -ries

1. the ability of the mind to store and recall past sensations, thoughts, and knowledge: she can do it from memory

2. the sum of everything retained by the mind

3. a particular recollection of an event or person: he started awake with a sudden memory

4. the length of time one can remember: my memory doesn't go that far back

5. commemoration: in memory of our leader

6. a person's reputation after death: a conductor of fond memory

7. a part of a computer in which information is stored [Latin memoria]

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memory  (mm-r)

1.

a. The ability to remember past experiences or learned information, involving advanced mental processes such as learning, retention, recall, and recognition and resulting from chemical changes between neurons in several different areas of the brain, including the hippocampus. Immediate memory lasts for just a few seconds. Short-term memory stores information that has been minimally processed and is available only for a few minutes, as in remembering a phone number just long enough to use it. Short-term memory is transferred into long-term memory, which can last for many years, only when repeated use of the information facilitates neurochemical changes that allow it to be retained. The loss of memory because of disease or injury is called amnesia.

b. The collection of information gained from past learning or experience that is stored in a person's mind.

c. A piece of information, such as the mental image of an experience, that is stored in the memory.

2.

a. A part of a computer in which data is stored for later use.

b. The capacity of a computer, chips, and storage devices to preserve data and programs for retrieval. Memory is measured in bytes. See more at hard diskRAMROM

3. The capacity of a material, such as plastic or metal, to return to a previous shape or condition.

4. The capacity of the immune system to produce a specific immune response to an antigen it has previously encountered.

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Memory

amnesia

a loss or lack of memory. — amnesiac, n. — amnesie, adj.

anamnesis

1. a reminiscence.
2. (cap.) the section of Christian liturgies rehearsing the sacriflee of Christ and ending “Do this in remembrance of me.” — anamnestic, adj.

cryptomnesia

the occurrence in consciousness of images not recognized as produced by the memory and its storage of events and scènes. — cryptomnesic, adj.

déjà vu

Psychology. the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time.

memoria technica

any mnemonic device or aidememoire, especially a technical device.

mnemonics

the process or technique of improving, assisting, or developing the memory. Also called mnemotechnics. — mnemonic, adj.

panmnesia

the belief that every mental impression remains in the memory.

paramnesia

Psychiatry. a distortion of memory in which fact and fancy are confused.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	memory - something that is remembered; "search as he would, the memory was lost" reminiscence - a mental impression retained and recalled from the past internal representation, mental representation, representation - a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image recollection - something recalled to the mind engram, memory trace - a postulated biochemical change (presumably in neural tissue) that represents a memory confabulation - (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered screen memory - an imagined memory of a childhood experience; hides another memory of distressing significance
	2.	memory - the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered; "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father" remembering basic cognitive process - cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge immediate memory, short-term memory, STM - what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it working memory - memory for intermediate results that must be held during thinking long-term memory, LTM - your general store of remembered information retrieval - the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory; "my retrieval of people's names is very poor" recollection, reminiscence, recall - the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort); "he has total recall of the episode" recognition, identification - the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering; "a politician whose recall of names was as remarkable as his recognition of faces"; "experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer" connexion, association, connection - the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination; "conditioning is a form of learning by association" retrospection - memory for experiences that are past; "some psychologists tried to contrast retrospection and introspection"
	3.	memory - the power of retaining and recalling past experience; "he had a good memory when he was younger" retentiveness, retentivity, retention faculty, mental faculty, module - one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind recollection, remembrance, anamnesis - the ability to recall past occurrences
	4.	memory - an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached" computer memory, computer storage, memory board, store, storage computer, computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system - a machine for performing calculations automatically computer hardware, hardware - (computer science) the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system memory device, storage device - a device that preserves information for retrieval non-volatile storage, nonvolatile storage - computer storage that is not lost when the power is turned off fixed storage, read-only memory, read-only storage, ROM - (computer science) memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed real storage - the main memory in a virtual memory system register - (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind scratchpad - (computer science) a high-speed internal memory used for temporary storage of preliminary information virtual memory, virtual storage - (computer science) memory created by using the hard disk to simulate additional random-access memory; the addressable storage space available to the user of a computer system in which virtual addresses are mapped into real addresses volatile storage - computer storage that is erased when the power is turned off
	5.	memory - the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes; "he taught a graduate course on learning and memory" cognitive psychology - an approach to psychology that emphasizes internal mental processes

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memory

noun 1. recall, mind, retention, ability to remember, powers of recall, powers of retention

noun 2. recollection, reminder, reminiscence, impression, echo, remembrance

noun 3. commemoration, respect, honour, recognition, tribute, remembrance, observance

Translations

memory [ˈmɛmərɪ] n → memoria (= recollection); recuerdo;

(COMPUT) → memoria;

to have a good/bad memory → tener buena/mala memoria;

loss of memory → pérdida de memoria

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memory [ˈmɛmərɪ] n (also Comput) → mémoire f (= recollection); souvenir m;

to have a good/bad memory → avoir une bonne/mauvaise mémoire;

loss of memory → perte f de mémoire;

in memory of → à la mémoire de

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memory [ˈmɛmərɪ] n → Gedächtnis nt;

(sth remembered) → Erinnerung f;

(Comput) → Speicher m;

in memory of → zur Erinnerung an +acc;

to have a good/bad memory → ein gutes/schlechtes Gedächtnis haben;

loss of memory → Gedächtnisschwund m

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memory [ˈmɛmərɪ] n (gen), (COMPUT) → memoria (= recollection); ricordo;

in memory of → in memoria di;

to have a good/bad memory → aver buona/cattiva memoria;

loss of memory → amnesia