Defenition of the word memory
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Defenition of the word memory
- The ability of an organism to record information combined with the facility of recall.
- Computer components, devices and recording media that retain data for some interval of time.
- something that is remembered; "search as he would, the memory was lost"
- the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes; "he taught a graduate course on learning and memory"
- the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered; "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father"
- the power of retaining and recalling past experience; "he had a good memory when he was younger"
- an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached"
- an electronic memory device
- the power of retaining and recalling past experience
- the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
- something that is remembered
- the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes
Synonyms for the word memory
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- memory board
- recall
- recollection
- remembering
- remembrance
- reminiscence
- retention
- retentiveness
- storage
- store
Similar words in the memory
Meronymys for the word memory
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- computer
- computing device
- computing machine
- data processor
- electronic computer
- information processing system
Hyponyms for the word memory
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- anamnesis
- association
- confabulation
- connection
- connexion
- engram
- fixed storage
- identification
- immediate memory
- long-term memory
- LTM
- memory trace
- non-volatile storage
- nonvolatile storage
- read-only memory
- read-only storage
- real storage
- recall
- recognition
- recollection
- remembrance
- reminiscence
- retrieval
- retrospection
- ROM
- scratchpad
- screen memory
- short-term memory
- STM
- virtual memory
- virtual storage
- volatile storage
- working memory
Hypernyms for the word memory
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- basic cognitive process
- cognitive psychology
- computer hardware
- faculty
- hardware
- internal representation
- memory device
- mental faculty
- mental representation
- module
- representation
- storage device
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