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   memory

   /ˈmɛm(ə)ri/

   noun

   • 1. the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information: "I've a great memory for faces"
   • ▪ the mind regarded as a store of things remembered: "he searched his memory frantically for an answer" Similar ability to rememberpowers of recallrecallpowers of retentionretentionmindOpposite forgetfulness
   • 2. something remembered from the past: "one of my earliest memories is of sitting on his knee" Similar recollectionremembrancereminiscenceevocationremindersouvenirechoimpression
   • ▪ the remembering or commemoration of a dead person: "clubs devoted to the memory of Sherlock Holmes" Similar commemorationremembrancehonourtributerecognitionobservancerespect
   • ▪ the length of time over which a person or event continues to be remembered: "the worst slump in recent memory"
   • 3. the part of a computer in which data or program instructions can be stored for retrieval. Similar memory bankstorecachediskRAMROM
   • ▪ a computer's capacity for storing information: "the module provides 16Mb of memory"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French memorie, from Latin memoria, from memor ‘mindful, remembering’.

   Scrabble Points: 13

   • M

     3

   • E

     1

   • M

     3

   • O

     1

   • R

     1

   • Y

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