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| megabyte |
a unit of electronic memory capacity equal to 1,048,576 bytes, or approximately one million bytes. |
| meme |
an idea, behavior, style, or other element of a culture which takes root in that culture through repeated transmission and is kept in existence through the collective memory of the group. [1/2 definitions] |
| memorable |
easily kept in memory; highly impressive or exceptional. [1/2 definitions] |
| memorial |
serving to honor and preserve the memory of someone. [1/2 definitions] |
| memorialize |
to honor the memory of, as by an observance or celebration; commemorate. [1/2 definitions] |
| memorize |
to learn thoroughly so as to hold in the memory. |
| mind's eye |
the imagination or memory. |
| minicomputer |
a small computer with more memory and greater speed than a microcomputer. |
| mnemonic |
pertaining to or designed to aid the memory. [2 definitions] |
| mnemonics |
(used with a sing. verb) a process, system, or technique used to aid and improve the memory. |
| Mnemosyne |
in Greek mythology, the goddess personifying memory, and mother of the Muses. |
| motherboard |
the main printed circuit board of a personal computer, which holds chips containing the central processing unit, memory, ports, and the integrated circuits that control the keyboard and other standard peripheral devices, and to which additional circuit boards can be attached. |
| paramnesia |
in psychiatry, a distortion of memory in which factual and imagined events become confused. |
| play by ear |
to play (a piece of music) just from the memory of the sound of it and not from reading the musical notation. [1/2 definitions] |
| RAM |
abbreviation of "random-access memory." |
| random-access |
of a computer memory, allowing the retrieval of data directly, without regard to the sequence in which the data was input. |
| rattle off |
to list or recite quickly, esp. from memory. |
| recital |
a point by point report, usu. oral and esp. from memory, as of a list or series of events. [2/3 definitions] |
| recitation |
a session of a class or course for exercising students' memory of material that has been previously studied. [2/3 definitions] |
| recite |
to repeat the text of, esp. from memory and in public. [4/5 definitions] |
| recollect |
to retrieve or be able to retrieve from memory; recall; remember. [1/2 definitions] |
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