memory

Meaning

Noun

• The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later at will.
• A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.
• The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).
• The time within which past events can be or are remembered.
• Which returns to its original shape when heat
• A memorial.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• base memory
• bubble memory
• collective memory
• constructive memory
• convential memory
• core memory
• declarative memory
• dynamic memory
• echoic memory
• eidetic memory
• episodic memory
• expanded memory
• extended memory
• extinction memory
• false memory
• flash memory
• flashbulb memory
• folk memory
• genetic memory
• institutional memory
• living memory
• long memory
• long-term memory
• main memory
• muscle memory
• photographic memory
• procedural memory
• race memory
• random access memory
• read-only memory
• recent memory
• recovered memory
• retrospective memory
• selective memory
• semantic memory
• semiconductor memory
• sensory memory
• shadow memory
• short-term memory
• translation memory
• virtual memory
• volatile memory
• water memory
• working memory

Origin

• From Anglo-Norman memorie, Old French memoire etc., from Latin memoria ("the faculty of remembering, remembrance, memory, a historical account"), from memor, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (to remember), related to Ancient Greek μνήμη ("memory") μέρμερος, μέριμνα, Old English mimor ("mindful, remembering"). More at mimmer. memoir, and memoria.