Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word MEMORY

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Definitions of MEMORY

1. A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.
2. The time within which past events can be or are remembered.
3. (computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).
4. (attributive, of a material) Which returns to its original shape when heated
5. (obsolete) A memorial.
6. Synonym of pelmanism.
7. (zoology, collective, rare) A term of venery for a social group of elephants, normally called a herd.
8. Alternative letter-case form of memory ("pelmanism")..
9. (uncountable) The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later, usually at will.

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Examples of Using MEMORY in a Sentence

• His films explore spiritual and metaphysical themes and are known for their slow pacing and long takes, dreamlike visual imagery and preoccupation with nature and memory.
• In computer science, an array is a data structure consisting of a collection of elements (values or variables), of same memory size, each identified by at least one array index or key.
• Accessing memory is slower than accessing a register like an accumulator because the technology used for the large main memory is slower (but cheaper) than that used for a register.
• Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures.
• In programming and information security, a buffer overflow or buffer overrun is an anomaly whereby a program writes data to a buffer beyond the buffer's allocated memory, overwriting adjacent memory locations.
• Early symptoms include memory problems, behavioral changes, poor coordination, and visual disturbances.
• Mental faculties of concern to cognitive scientists include language, perception, memory, attention, reasoning, and emotion; to understand these faculties, cognitive scientists borrow from fields such as linguistics, psychology, artificial intelligence, philosophy, neuroscience, and anthropology.
• Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning.
• Particular focus is given to computation time (generally measured by the number of needed elementary operations) and memory storage requirements.
• In most traditional computer architectures, the CPU and main memory tend to be tightly coupled, with the internal bus connecting the two being known as the system bus.
• The garbage collector attempts to reclaim memory that was allocated by the program, but is no longer referenced; such memory is called garbage.
• Main memory operates at a high speed compared to mass storage which is slower but less expensive per bit and higher in capacity.
• Examples of CISC architectures include complex mainframe computers to simplistic microcontrollers where memory load and store operations are not separated from arithmetic instructions.
• Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DDR SDRAM) is a double data rate (DDR) synchronous dynamic random-access memory (SDRAM) class of memory integrated circuits used in computers.
• The EC-hippocampus system plays an important role in declarative (autobiographical/episodic/semantic) memories and in particular spatial memories including memory formation, memory consolidation, and memory optimization in sleep.
• Passages in the New Testament state that he commanded them to "do this in memory of me" while referring to the bread as "my body" and the cup of wine as "the blood of my covenant, which is poured out for many".
• A fifth-century legend evolved that Pope Sylvester I was the one to baptize Constantine, but this is dismissed by scholars as a forgery 'to amend the historical memory of the Arian baptism that the emperor received at the end of his life, and instead to attribute an unequivocally orthodox baptism to him.
• Forgetting or disremembering is the apparent loss or modification of information already encoded and stored in an individual's short or long-term memory.
• A related concept is the strength of memory that refers to the durability that memory traces in the brain.
• Compared to the original Game Boy, the Game Boy Color features a color TFT screen rather than monochrome, a processor that can operate twice as fast, and four times as much memory.

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