MEMORY
\mˈɛməɹˌi], \mˈɛməɹˌi], \m_ˈɛ_m_ə_ɹ_ˌi]\
Definitions of MEMORY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1910 - Black's Law Dictionary (2nd edition)
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached"
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the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes; "he taught a graduate course on learning and memory"
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the power of retaining and recalling past experience; "he had a good memory when he was younger"
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the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered; "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father"
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something that is remembered; "search as he would, the memory was lost"
By Princeton University
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an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached"
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the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes; "he taught a graduate course on learning and memory"
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the power of retaining and recalling past experience; "he had a good memory when he was younger"
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the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered; "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father"
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something that is remembered; "search as he would, the memory was lost"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.
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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.
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The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.
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The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.
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Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory.
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A memorial.
By Oddity Software
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The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.
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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.
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The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.
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The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.
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Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory.
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A memorial.
By Noah Webster.
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Complex mental function having four distinct phases: (1) memorizing or learning, (2) retention, (3) recall, and (4) recognition. Clinically, it is usually subdivided into immediate, recent, and remote memory.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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That faculty of the mind by which it keeps the knowledge of occurrences, facts, thoughts, etc., which are a part of the past, and recalls them; a particular oxperience remembered; as, he was lost in memories of his youth; the range of time within which past happenings are remembered; as, within the memory of the oldest inhabitant; the subject of remembrance; as, his youthful ideals were but memories to him.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The power of retaining in subconsciousness and of reviving an impression or idea of which the mind has once been conscious; recollection.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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A having or keeping in the mind: the faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts or events: retention: remembrance.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The mental power of recalling the past; remembrance; recollection.
By James Champlin Fernald
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The faculty of the mind by which it retains and can recall previous ideas and impressions; the state of being remembered; anything remembered; remembrance; memorial; monumental record.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The faculty of the mind by which it retains, and reproduces at will, past events; acquired knowledge or ideas; the time within which past events can be remembered; exemption from oblivion; monumental record.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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brano" Is used, In citations to them, in the same way as "page" or "folio," to distinguish the particular skin referred to.
By Henry Campbell Black
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mem'o-ri, n. the power of retaining and reproducing mental or sensory impressions: a having or keeping in the mind: time within which past things can be remembered: that which is remembered: commemoration: remembrance.--n.pl. MEMORABIL'IA, things worth remembering: noteworthy points.--adj. MEM'ORABLE, deserving to be remembered: remarkable.--adv. MEM'ORABLY.--n. MEMORAN'DUM, something to be remembered: a note to assist the memory: (law) a brief note of some transaction: (diplomacy) a summary of the state of a question:--pl. MEMORAN'DUMS, MEMORAN'DA.--adjs. MEM'OR[=A]TIVE, pertaining to memory: aiding the memory; MEM[=O]'RIAL, bringing to memory: contained in memory.--n. that which serves to keep in remembrance: a monument: a note to help the memory: a written statement forming the ground of a petition, laid before a legislative or other body: (B.) memory.--v.t. MEM[=O]'RIALISE, to present a memorial to: to petition by a memorial.--n. MEM[=O]'RIALIST, one who writes, signs, or presents a memorial.--v.t. MEM'ORISE, to commit to memory: (Shak.) to cause to be remembered.--adv. MEMOR'ITER, from memory: by heart.
By Thomas Davidson
By Robley Dunglison
By Alexander Duane
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Faculty of remembering; this in an individual, as a good, bad, m.; recollection; in m. of, as a record of, to keep alive the m. of; posthumous repute, as his m. has been censured, of blessed, happy, &c., m. (used esp. of deceased princes &c.); length of time over which m. extends, as beyond, within, the m. of men, within living m. [old French]
By Sir Augustus Henry
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin] The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts or events; remembrance; recollection;— the time within which past events can be remembered;— remembrance of a person or event preserved to after-times;— exemption from oblivion;— monumental record; reminiscence; reflection, attention.
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