| memory | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. memory | something that is remembered.; "search as he would, the memory was lost" |
| ~ reminiscence | a mental impression retained and recalled from the past. |
| ~ internal representation, mental representation, representation | a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image. |
| ~ recollection | something recalled to the mind. |
| ~ engram, memory trace | a postulated biochemical change (presumably in neural tissue) that represents a memory. |
| ~ confabulation | (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered. |
| ~ screen memory | an imagined memory of a childhood experience; hides another memory of distressing significance. |
| n. (cognition) | 2. memory, remembering | the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered.; "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father" |
| ~ basic cognitive process | cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge. |
| ~ immediate memory, short-term memory, stm | what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it. |
| ~ working memory | memory for intermediate results that must be held during thinking. |
| ~ long-term memory, ltm | your general store of remembered information. |
| ~ retrieval | the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory.; "my retrieval of people's names is very poor" |
| ~ recollection, reminiscence, recall | the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort).; "he has total recall of the episode" |
| ~ recognition, identification | the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering.; "a politician whose recall of names was as remarkable as his recognition of faces"; "experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer" |
| ~ connexion, association, connection | the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination.; "conditioning is a form of learning by association" |
| ~ retrospection | memory for experiences that are past.; "some psychologists tried to contrast retrospection and introspection" |
| n. (cognition) | 3. memory, retention, retentiveness, retentivity | the power of retaining and recalling past experience.; "he had a good memory when he was younger" |
| ~ faculty, mental faculty, module | one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind. |
| ~ recollection, remembrance, anamnesis | the ability to recall past occurrences. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. computer memory, computer storage, memory, memory board, storage, store | an electronic memory device.; "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached" |
| ~ computer, computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system | a machine for performing calculations automatically. |
| ~ computer hardware, hardware | (computer science) the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system. |
| ~ memory device, storage device | a device that preserves information for retrieval. |
| ~ non-volatile storage, nonvolatile storage | computer storage that is not lost when the power is turned off. |
| ~ fixed storage, read-only memory, read-only storage, rom | (computer science) memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed. |
| ~ real storage | the main memory in a virtual memory system. |
| ~ register | (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind. |
| ~ scratchpad | (computer science) a high-speed internal memory used for temporary storage of preliminary information. |
| ~ virtual memory, virtual storage | (computer science) memory created by using the hard disk to simulate additional random-access memory; the addressable storage space available to the user of a computer system in which virtual addresses are mapped into real addresses. |
| ~ volatile storage | computer storage that is erased when the power is turned off. |
| n. (cognition) | 5. memory | the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes.; "he taught a graduate course on learning and memory" |
| ~ cognitive psychology | an approach to psychology that emphasizes internal mental processes. |
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