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memory
has definitions from the fields of computer science,psychology
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[ noun ] something that is remembered
Examples "search as he would, the memory was lost" Used in print (The Providence Journal...)The company which performed the Pulitzer_Prize musical here last night and will repeat it twice today is full of bounce , the politicians are in fine voice , the chorines evoke happy memories , and the Little_Flower rides to break a lance again . (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)The long settled areas of states like Virginia and South_Carolina developed the ante-bellum culture to its richest flowering , and there the memory is more precious , and the consciousness of loss the greater . (Max F. Millikan and Donald L. M. Blackmer,...)Feelings of a community of interest will have_to be recreated - in some of the new nations , indeed , they must be built for_the_first_time - on a new basis which looks toward the future and does not rely only on shared memories of the past . (Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)These little songs , however , were sweet_nothings from_the_heart , tender memories of his childhood , little melodies that anyone could hum and that would make one want to weep . (Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)The road leading south along the river was shaded with old trees , and in the moonlight the silvery landscape was like a setting for trolls and wood gods rather_than the Hudson_River Valley of his boyhood memories . Related terms representation recollection engram confabulation reminiscence screen_memory memorize |
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[ noun ] the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
Synonyms Examples "he can do it from memory" "he enjoyed remembering his father" Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)that the perfect continuity was composed from the job_lot of memory impressions in the professor 's brain , or 2 . The degree of circumstance , the ratio of memory to forgetfulness , determines whether a dream will be a recognized , fulfilled prevision , or the vaguely , effective source of the weird deja_vu feeling . (E. Gellhorn, "Prolegomena to a theory of the emotions"...)It should be added that in man neocortical hypothalamic interrelations probably play a role in the fusion of emotional processes with those underlying perception , memory , imagination , and creativity . The visceral_brain as_well_as the neocortex is known to contribute to memory , but this topic is beyond the scope of this paper . (Francis Pollini, Night....)He chuckled , the memory vivid . |
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[ noun ] (psychology) the power of retaining and recalling past experience
Synonyms Examples "he had a good memory when he was younger" Used in print (Charles Wharton Stork, "Verner von Heidenstam"...)Heidenstam wrote four other works of fiction about earlier figures revered in Swedish memory . (Edward Jablonski, Harold Arlen Happy with the Blues....)He has a wonderfully retentive memory . |
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[ noun ] (computer science) an electronic memory device
Examples "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached" Used in print (Hugh Kelly and Ted Ziehe, "Glossary Lookup Made Easy"...)For this step the computer memory is separated into three regions : cells in the W_region are used for storage of the forms in the text form list ; cells in the X-region and Y_region are reserved as information cells for text forms . A random address * * f that lies within the X-region of memory mentioned earlier is computed from the i-th dictionary form . The list of text forms in the W-region of memory and the contents of the information cells in the X and Y-regions are no_longer required . |
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[ noun ] (psychology) the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes
Examples "he taught a graduate course on learning and memory" Related terms |
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