MEMORY | English Meaning, Definition, and Pronunciation

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Word: Memory

Speech Type: Noun

Etymology:

Middle English: from Old French memorie, from Latin memoria, from memor ‘mindful, remembering’

Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling: ˈmɛm(ə)ri
Dialects: British English
Definition:

the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information

Short Definition:

faculty of remembering

Examples:
  • I've a great memory for faces
  • the brain regions responsible for memory
Definition:

something remembered from the past

Short Definition:

something remembered

Examples:
  • one of my earliest memories is of sitting on his knee
  • the mind can bury all memory of traumatic abuse
Definition:

the part of a computer in which data or program instructions can be stored for retrieval.

Short Definition:

part of computer for storing data

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