| memory | |
| 1. n. The ability of a system to record information about things or events with the facility of recalling them later at will. | |
| Memory is a facility common to all animals. | |
| 2. n. A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism. | |
| I have no memory of that event. | |
| My wedding is one of my happiest memories. | |
| 3. n. (computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM). | |
| This data passes from the CPU to the memory. | |
| 4. n. The time within which past events can be or are remembered. | |
| in recent memory; in living memory | |
| 5. n. (attributive, of a material) which returns to its original shape when heat, heated | |
| Memory metal; memory plastic. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) A memorial. | |
| 7. n. (zoology, collective, rare) (A term of venery for a social group of elephants, normally called a herd.) | |
