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memory (iou)



memory noun. ME.
[Old French memorie, (also mod.) memoire from Latin memoria, from memor mindful: see -Y3.]
The faculty by which things are remembered; the capacity for retaining, perpetuating, or reviving the thought of things past; an individual's faculty for remembering things. ME.
H. B. Stowe Topsy had an uncommon verbal memory. F. Galton One favourite expedient was to associate the sight memory with the muscular memory. O. Henry 'I've seen that fellow somewhere,' said Littlefield, who had a memory for faces. T. Capote The prisoner..proud of..a brilliant memory, recited the names and addresses. W. Trevor Memory fails me when I think about the men of the mill.
b. The capacity of a body or substance for manifesting effects of its previous state, behaviour, or treatment, or for returning to a previous state when the cause of the transition from that state is removed; such effects, such a state. L19.
c. A device (usu. part of a computer) in which data or program instructions may be stored and from which they may be retrieved when required; capacity for storing data etc. in this way. M20.
C. Stoll Other computer folks measure size in megabytes of memory.
The fact or condition of being remembered; remembrance, commemoration. Now only in in memory of below. ME.
b. Christian Church. A commemoration, esp. of the dead. obsolete exc. Hist. LME.
The perpetuated knowledge or recollection (of something); what is remembered of a person, object, or event; (good or bad) posthumous reputation. ME.
Swift His late Majesty King William the Third, of ever glorious and immortal Memory. E. M. Forster I have my children and the memory of my dear wife to consider. Jonathan Miller Acute head injuries..can rob the patient of any memory of the events..leading up to the accident.
The knowledge which a person can recover or has recovered by mental effort; the function of the mind regarded as a store for this. LME.
G. Grote A considerable portion of the Greeks of Olbia could repeat the Iliad from memory. R. Harling Perhaps..it has slipped your memory. F. Wyndham A grim experience, which I later managed to blot out almost completely from my memory. C. Simmons I searched my memory for an instance of parental betrayal.
b. An act or instance of remembering; a representation in the memory; a person or thing as remembered; a recollection. E19.
G. Orwell His mother's memory tore at his heart because she had died loving him. E. Feinstein My earliest memories turn around a room with a huge wooden table.
A memorial account or record; a history. LME-M18.
A memorial object or act; a memento; a monument. Long obsolete exc. Canad. dial., an embroidered memorial wall-hanging. LME.
The length of time over which the recollection of a person or a number of persons extends. M16.
Phrases: commit to memory: see COMMIT verb 1. in memory of so as to keep alive the remembrance of; as a record of. legal memory: see LEGAL adjective. living memory: see LIVING adjective. long memory: see LONG adjective1. magnetic memory: see MAGNETIC adjective. PHOTOGRAPHIC memory. the Immortal Memory: a toast to the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-96). to the memory of = in memory of above.
Comb.: memory bank the memory device of a computer; fig. the human memory; memory-belief a memory implicitly believed in though probably unverifiable; memory board (a) a board on which is fixed or written something which is to be remembered; (b) Theatrical a programmable console for the semi-automatic control of stage lighting; (c) Computing a flat, freq. detachable, array of memory devices in a computer; memory book US a blank book in which cuttings from newspapers etc. are pasted for preservation; a scrapbook; an autograph album; memory cell (a) a single unit of memory storage in a device or (fig.) the brain; (b) Physiology a long-lived lymphocyte capable of responding to a particular antigen even when the antigen is reintroduced long after the initial exposure that produced the lymphocyte; memory cycle Computing (the time taken by) the process of replacing one unit of data in a memory by another; memory drug a drug supposed to improve the memory; memory drum (a) Psychology a revolving device on which items to be learned are successively presented; (b) a drum-shaped memory device in a computer; memory effect an effect in a body or substance arising from memory; memory lane fig. a succession of sentimental memories deliberately pursued (chiefly in down memory lane); memory span Psychology the maximum number of items that can be recalled in the correct order immediately after a single presentation of them; memory trace Psychology a hypothetical trace left in the nervous system by the act of memorizing.
memoryless adjective M19.

bed of breast (medicine)


bed of breast
Structures against which the posterior surface of the breast lies; includes mainly the pectoralis major muscle, but also some serratus anterior and external abdominal oblique muscle; extends from second to sixth rib, and from parasternal to anterior axillary lines.