Mnemonics vs. Memory — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Mnemonics and Memory
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Mnemonics
A system to develop or improve the memory.
Memory
Memory is the faculty of the brain by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action.
Mnemonics
(plurale tantum) The study of techniques for remembering anything more easily.
Memory
The mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experience.
Mnemonics
Plural of mnemonic
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Memory
The act or an instance of remembering; recollection
Spent the afternoon lost in memory.
Mnemonics
The art of memory; a method for improving the memory; a system of precepts and rules intended to assist the memory; artificial memory.
Memory
All that a person can remember
It hasn't happened in my memory.
Mnemonics
A method or system for improving the memory
Memory
Something that is remembered
Pleasant childhood memories.
Memory
The fact of being remembered; remembrance
Dedicated to their parents' memory.
Memory
The period of time covered by the remembrance or recollection of a person or group of persons
Within the memory of humankind.
Memory
A circuit or device that stores digital data.
Memory
Capacity for storing information
Two gigabytes of memory.
Memory
(Statistics) The set of past events affecting a given event in a stochastic process.
Memory
The capacity of a material, such as plastic or metal, to return to a previous shape after deformation.
Memory
(Immunology) The ability of the immune system to respond faster and more powerfully to subsequent exposure to an antigen.
Memory
(uncountable) The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later at will.
Memory is a facility common to all animals.
Memory
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.
Memory
(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.
Memory
The time within which past events can be or are remembered.
In recent memory
In living memory
Memory
Which returns to its original shape when heated
Memory metal
Memory plastic
Memory
(obsolete) A memorial.
Memory
A term of venery for a social group of elephants, normally called a herd.
Memory
The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.
Memory is the purveyor of reason.
Memory
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.
Memory
The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.
Memory
The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.
And what, before thy memory, was doneFrom the begining.
Memory
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.
The memory of the just is blessed.
That ever-living man of memory, Henry the Fifth.
The Nonconformists . . . have, as a body, always venerated her [Elizabeth's] memory.
Memory
A memorial.
These weeds are memories of those worser hours.
Memory
Something that is remembered;
Search as he would, the memory was lost
Memory
The cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered;
He can do it from memory
He enjoyed remembering his father
Memory
The power of retaining and recalling past experience;
He had a good memory when he was younger
Memory
An electronic memory device;
A memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached
Memory
The area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes;
He taught a graduate course on learning and memory
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