$ dict memory | less
6 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Memory \Mem"o*ry\, n.; pl. {Memories}. [OE. memorie, OF. memoire, memorie, F. m['e]moire, L. memoria, fr. memor mindful; cf. mora delay. Cf. {Demur}, {Martyr}, {Memoir}, {Remember}.] [1913 Webster] 1. The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events. [1913 Webster] Memory is the purveyor of reason. --Rambler. [1913 Webster] 2. The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong. [1913 Webster]<SNIP>From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: memory n 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" [syn: {memory}, {remembering}] 3: the power of retaining and recalling past experience; "he had
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thesaurus]:
78 Moby Thesaurus words for"memory":
RAM, anamnesis, anniversaries, archetypal pattern, archetype,
awareness, celebrating, celebration, ceremony, cognizance,
commemoration, consciousness, disk memory, dressing ship,
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) [foldoc]:
memory
<storage> These days, usually used synonymously with {Random
Access Memory} or {Read-Only Memory}, but in the general sense
it can be any device that can hold {data} in
{machine-readable} format.
(1996-05-25)
From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]: MEMORY, TIME OF. According to the English common law, which has been altered by 2 & 3 Wm. IV., c. 71, the time of memory commenced from the reign of
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elements The Elements (07Nov00)
vera V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016)
jargon The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003)
foldoc The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)
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