Memory (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun, plural mem·o·ries.
  1. the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences.
  2. this faculty as possessed by a particular individual: to have a good memory.
  3. the act or fact of retaining and recalling impressions, facts, etc.; remembrance; recollection: to draw from memory.
  4. the length of time over which recollection extends: a time within the memory of living persons.
  5. a mental impression retained; a recollection: one's earliest memories.
  6. the reputation of a person or thing, especially after death; fame: a ruler of beloved memory.
  7. the state or fact of being remembered.
  8. a person, thing, event, fact, etc., remembered.
  9. commemorative remembrance; commemoration: a monument in memory of Columbus.
  10. the ability of certain materials to return to an original shape after deformation.
  11. Also called computer memory, storage. Computers.
    • the capacity of a computer to store information subject to recall.
    • the components of the computer in which such information is stored.
  12. the step in the classical preparation of a speech in which the wording is memorized.
  13. concentration (def. 7).
noun plural -ries
    • the ability of the mind to store and recall past sensations, thoughts, knowledge, etc
    • the part of the brain that appears to have this function
  2. the sum of everything retained by the mind
  3. a particular recollection of an event, person, etc
  4. the time over which recollection extends
  5. commemoration or remembrance
  6. the state of being remembered, as after death
  7. a part of a computer in which information is stored for immediate use by the central processing unit
  8. the tendency for a material, system, etc, to show effects that depend on its past treatment or history
  9. the ability of a material, etc, to return to a former state after a constraint has been removed
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