Noun

Singular memory

Plural countable and uncountable; plural memories

memory (countable and uncountable; plural memories)

1. (uncountable) The ability of an organism to record information about things or events with the facility of recalling them later at will.

   Memory is a facility common to all animals.

   • (A date for this quote is being sought): Albert Schweitzer

     Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

2. A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.

   I have no memory of that event.

3. (computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).

   This data passes from the CPU to the memory.

Synonyms

• (ability to recall): recall
• (stored record): recall, recollection
• (RAM or ROM): core (old-fashioned)

Derived terms

• declarative memory
• eidetic memory
• false memory
• flashbulb memory
• memory bank

• memory card
• photographic memory
• semantic memory
• sensory memory

Related terms

• memo
• memoirs
• memorable
• memorandum

• memorate
• memorial
• memorise
• memorize

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In psychology, memory is an organism's mental ability to store, retain and recall information. Traditional studies of memory began in the fields of philosophy, including techniques of artificially enhancing the memory. The late nineteenth and early twentieth century put memory within the paradigms of cognitive psychology. In recent decades, it has become one of the principal pillars of a branch of science called cognitive neuroscience, an interdisciplinary link between cognitive psychology and neuroscience.