Dictionary
mem•o•ry
Pronunciation: (mem'u-rē), [key]—
n.,
—pl. -ries.
1. the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences.
2. this faculty as possessed by a particular individual:
to have a good memory.
3. the act or fact of retaining and recalling impressions, facts, etc.; remembrance; recollection:
to draw from memory.
4. the length of time over which recollection extends:
a time within the memory of living persons.
5. a mental impression retained; a recollection:
one's earliest memories.
6. the reputation of a person or thing, esp. after death; fame:
a ruler of beloved memory.
7. the state or fact of being remembered.
8. a person, thing, event, fact, etc., remembered.
9. commemorative remembrance; commemoration:
a monument in memory of Columbus.
10. the ability of certain materials to return to an original shape after deformation.
11. Also called
computer memory, storage. Computers.
a. the capacity of a computer to store information subject to recall.
b. the components of the computer in which such information is stored.
12. Rhet.the step in the classical preparation of a speech in which the wording is memorized.
13. Cards.concentration (def. 7).
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
