[ US /ˈmɛmɝi/ ]
[ UK /mˈɛməɹˌi/ ]
NOUN
  1. an electronic memory device
    a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached
  2. the power of retaining and recalling past experience
    he had a good memory when he was younger
  3. something that is remembered
    search as he would, the memory was lost
  4. the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
    he enjoyed remembering his father
    he can do it from memory
  5. the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes
    he taught a graduate course on learning and memory
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How To Use memory In A Sentence

  • The scene will be etched on my memory forever.
  • Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you; though, I know, to divide him inventorially would dizzy the arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw neither, in respect of his quick sail. Act V. Scene II. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
  • You will be surprised at the power of muscle memory. Times, Sunday Times
  • Figure 13.2 shows a single memory core in what would have been a large array.
  • It has also been claimed that part or all of the device's memory can be mounted on a host computer's desktop as a removable storage device.
  • But true-life tales of memory loss don't offer just drama - they also shed light on the mysteries of identity and personality.
  • I astound myself with my memory for useless childhood trivia.
  • These results indicate that, depending on the unique features of a given learning, experience, very different classes of mechanisms can be engaged to subserve memory in a particular time domain.
  • The sinister atmosphere of the place left an indelible imprint on my memory.
  • But Frye's dreams of systematizing and co-ordinating a literary universe also rose to meet counterparts in Frances Yates's 1967 account of the zodiacs and theatres of the encyclopaedic memory systems of Bruno and Camillo.
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