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MEMORY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An electronic memory device
Example:
a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached
Synonyms:
computer memory; computer storage; memory; memory board; storage; store
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("memory" is a kind of...):
computer hardware; hardware ((computer science) the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system)
memory device; storage device (a device that preserves information for retrieval)
Meronyms (parts of "memory"):
register ((computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "memory"):
non-volatile storage; nonvolatile storage (computer storage that is not lost when the power is turned off)
fixed storage; read-only memory; read-only storage; ROM ((computer science) memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed)
real storage (the main memory in a virtual memory system)
scratchpad ((computer science) a high-speed internal memory used for temporary storage of preliminary information)
virtual memory; virtual storage ((computer science) memory created by using the hard disk to simulate additional random-access memory; the addressable storage space available to the user of a computer system in which virtual addresses are mapped into real addresses)
volatile storage (computer storage that is erased when the power is turned off)
Holonyms ("memory" is a part of...):
computer; computing device; computing machine; data processor; electronic computer; information processing system (a machine for performing calculations automatically)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The power of retaining and recalling past experience
Example:
he had a good memory when he was younger
Synonyms:
memory; retention; retentiveness; retentivity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("memory" is a kind of...):
faculty; mental faculty; module (one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "memory"):
anamnesis; recollection; remembrance (the ability to recall past occurrences)
Derivation:
memorize (commit to memory; learn by heart)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
Example:
he enjoyed remembering his father
Synonyms:
memory; remembering
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("memory" is a kind of...):
basic cognitive process (cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "memory"):
retrospection (memory for experiences that are past)
association; connection; connexion (the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination)
identification; recognition (the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering)
recall; recollection; reminiscence (the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort))
retrieval (the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory)
long-term memory; LTM (your general store of remembered information)
working memory (memory for intermediate results that must be held during thinking)
immediate memory; short-term memory; STM (what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it)
Derivation:
memorize (commit to memory; learn by heart)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Something that is remembered
Example:
search as he would, the memory was lost
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("memory" is a kind of...):
internal representation; mental representation; representation (a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "memory"):
reminiscence (a mental impression retained and recalled from the past)
recollection (something recalled to the mind)
engram; memory trace (a postulated biochemical change (presumably in neural tissue) that represents a memory)
confabulation ((psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered)
screen memory (an imagined memory of a childhood experience; hides another memory of distressing significance)
Derivation:
memorize (commit to memory; learn by heart)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes
Example:
he taught a graduate course on learning and memory
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("memory" is a kind of...):
cognitive psychology (an approach to psychology that emphasizes internal mental processes)
Context examples:
A toast heartily given by the good man, who never forgot how much he owed her, and quietly drunk by the boys, who had been taught to keep her memory green.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
But the memory of his mother held him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The Sunland was very dim and distant, and such memories had no power over him.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Recalling a memory, then, opens a window of opportunity for that memory to be changed — what researchers call a "reconsolidation window."
(How Our Memory Works, NIH, US)
I must pause here, for it requires all my fortitude to recall the memory of the frightful events which I am about to relate, in proper detail, to my recollection.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
You've neither sense nor memory, and I leave it to fancy where your mothers was that let you come to sea.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
And it’s not want of memory; for I declare I can see him this moment.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The T cell costimulatory signal provided by the OX40/OX40L interaction increases the clonal amplification of antigen-specific T cells and the survival of memory T cells that respond to this antigen.
(OX40 Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
This protein is involved in immunoregulation, protein folding, and protein trafficking and may play a role in neurons associated with memory.
(Peptidyl-Prolyl Cis-Trans Isomerase FKBP8, NCI Thesaurus)
Any memory device that retains its stored data when the power is switched off.
(Persistent Memory Device, NCI Thesaurus)
