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| game show |
a television show in which participants play various games of chance, skill, or memory in order to win prizes. |
| gigabyte |
a unit of electronic storage capacity or memory equal to 1,073,741,824 bytes or approximately one billion bytes. (abbr.: G or GB) |
| grave3 |
to make a deep impression, as in the mind or memory. [1/2 definitions] |
| hark back |
to return to a previous point, or, as in memory, to an earlier time or subject. |
| haunt |
to come persistently and painfully to the mind or memory of. [1/4 definitions] |
| haunted |
obsessed or preoccupied, as by an idea, memory, or the like. [1/2 definitions] |
| immemorial |
reaching back in time beyond memory or record. |
| immortal |
enduring in fame or memory. [1/5 definitions] |
| imprint |
to impress on, or fix firmly in, the mind, memory, or feelings. [1/5 definitions] |
| ineradicable |
impossible to wipe out of existence, memory, or the like; not eradicable. |
| infix |
to fix in the mind or memory; instill; impress. [1/5 definitions] |
| in memoriam |
in memory of; as a memorial to. |
| jog1 |
to cause (the memory) to recall something or to be stimulated. [1/9 definitions] |
| keep in mind |
to hold (something) in one's memory and not forget it; remember. |
| learn |
to commit to memory; memorize. [1/5 definitions] |
| Lethe |
in Greek and Roman mythology, the river in Hades whose water causes loss of memory in those who drink it. [1/2 definitions] |
| limbic system |
a set of brain structures, located at the border (or limbus) separating the cerebral hemisphere from the brain stem, that support emotional responses, behavior, memory formation, and olfaction. |
| live1 |
to continue to be in existence or be present to the memory. [1/10 definitions] |
| load |
to transfer (data or a program) onto the memory of a computer. Data or programs may come from either the computer's storage or from an external source such as the internet. [1/17 definitions] |
| mb |
abbreviation of "megabyte," or "megabytes," a unit of electronic memory capacity equal to 1,048,576 bytes, or approximately one million bytes. |
| megabyte |
a unit of electronic memory capacity equal to 1,048,576 bytes, or approximately one million bytes. |
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