memory

memory
mem•o•ry
[[t]ˈmɛm ə ri[/t]] n. pl. -ries
1) the mental capacity or faculty of retaining or recalling facts, events, impressions, or previous experiences
2) this faculty as possessed by a particular individual:
to have a good memory[/ex]
3) the act or fact of retaining and recalling impressions, facts, etc.; remembrance:
to draw from memory[/ex]
4) the length of time over which recollection extends:
within the memory of living persons[/ex]
5) a mental impression retained; a recollection:
an early memory[/ex]
6) the reputation of a person or thing, esp. after death
7) the state or fact of being remembered
8) a person or thing remembered
9) commemorative remembrance; commemoration
10) cmp
Also called storage 4)
a) the capacity of a computer to store information
b) the components of the computer in which such information is stored
11) the ability of certain materials to return to an original shape after deformation
12) imu the ability of a cell of the immune system to respond to an antigen it has previously encountered
Etymology: 1275–1325; < L memoria=memor remembering +-ia -y III

From formal English to slang. 2014.

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