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memory definition and meaning

n. The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.
n. The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.
n. The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.
n. The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.
n. Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory.
n. A memorial.

Crossword clues for memory

- Computer device
- Lost more in my information storage
- recapture
- Retention in the mind