mnemonic

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or relating to mnemonics: the study of techniques for remembering anything more easily.
• Of or relating to memory.

Noun

• Anything (especially something in verbal form) used to help remember something.
• The textual, human-readable form of an assembly language instruction, not including operands.

Related

Similar words

• aide-mémoire

Origin

• From Latin mnēmonicus, from Ancient Greek μνημονικός ("of memory"), from μνήμων, from μνάομαι, from Proto-Indo-European *men- ("to think"); see mind.