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Memory   /mˈɛməri/   Listen
Memory

noun
(pl. memories)
1.
Something that is remembered.
2.
The cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered.  Synonym: remembering.  "He enjoyed remembering his father"
3.
The power of retaining and recalling past experience.  Synonyms: retention, retentiveness, retentivity.
4.
An electronic memory device.  Synonyms: computer memory, computer storage, memory board, storage, store.
5.
The area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes.



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"Memory" Quotes from Famous Books



... quite passed from him, for he was so busy all day long that at night he had much ado to fight off the demon of sleep, which Saint Arsenius the Abbot has denounced as the chief foe of the solitary. His memory kept good store of prayers and litanies, besides long passages from the Mass and other offices, and he marked the hours of his day by different acts of devotion. On Sundays and feast days, when the wind was set his way, he could hear the church bells from his native ...
— The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories • Edith Wharton
... Sara had looked when she said good-night to him at the door! The memory of her dark, mysterious eyes haunted him; he could see them in the night about him. They had been full of pain; there were torrents of tears behind them. They had glistened as if burnished by ...
— The Hollow of Her Hand • George Barr McCutcheon
... affections. By a species of occult communion, the secret of which is in the hearts of mothers, the child comprehended the peril that threatened him and dreaded the approach of his father. The terrible scene of which he had been a witness remained in his memory, and affected him like an illness; at the sound of the count's step his features contracted, and the mother's ear was not so alert as the instinct of her child. As he grew older this faculty created by terror increased, until, like the savages of America, Etienne could distinguish his father's ...
— The Hated Son • Honore de Balzac
... and compared with the magnanimous tears of Alexander, for the fall of Darius, our distrust is excited of the other virtues of the writer's hero, and what is still worse, of his own ideas of moral dignity. But even such praise, whatever its amount, is much for one, whose memory his biographer has to clear from the suspicion of being privy to ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... my readers are familiar with the general construction of a flower, but in order to insure such comprehension it is well, perhaps, to freshen our memory by reference to the accompanying diagram (Fig. 2) of an abstract flower, the ...
— My Studio Neighbors • William Hamilton Gibson


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