RAM vs. Memory — What's the Difference?

An uncastrated male sheep.

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.

A battering ram.

The mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experience.

The falling weight of a piledriving machine.

The act or an instance of remembering; recollection

A hydraulic water-raising or lifting machine.

All that a person can remember

Roughly force (something) into place

Something that is remembered

(of a place) be very crowded

The fact of being remembered; remembrance

Digital memory hardware in which information can be accessed in any order with equal speed.

The period of time covered by the remembrance or recollection of a person or group of persons

A male sheep.

A circuit or device that stores digital data.

A battering ram.

Capacity for storing information

The weight that drops in a pile driver or steam hammer.

(Statistics) The set of past events affecting a given event in a stochastic process.

The plunger or piston of a force pump or hydraulic press.

The capacity of a material, such as plastic or metal, to return to a previous shape after deformation.

A hydraulic ram.

(Immunology) The ability of the immune system to respond faster and more powerfully to subsequent exposure to an antigen.

A projection on the prow of a warship, used to batter or cut into enemy vessels.

(uncountable) The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later at will.

A ship having such a projection.

A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.

Ram See Aries.

(computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).

To strike or drive against with a heavy impact; butt

The time within which past events can be or are remembered.

To force or press into place.

Which returns to its original shape when heated

To cram; stuff

(obsolete) A memorial.

To force passage or acceptance of

A term of venery for a social group of elephants, normally called a herd.

A male sheep, typically uncastrated.

The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.

A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.

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.

A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.

The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.

A reinforced section of the bow of a warship, intended to be used for ramming other ships.

The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.

A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.

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.

An act of ramming.

A memorial.

A weight which strikes a blow, in a ramming device such as a pile driver, steam hammer, or stamp mill.

Something that is remembered;

(ambitransitive) To collide with (an object), usually with the intention of damaging it or disabling its function.

The cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered;

(transitive) To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement.

The power of retaining and recalling past experience;

(transitive) To seat a cartridge, projectile, or propellant charge in the breech of a firearm by pushing or striking.

An electronic memory device;

(transitive) To fill or compact by pounding or driving.

The area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes;

(slang) To thrust during sexual intercourse.

(Northern England) rancid; offensive in smell or taste.

The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.

Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.

An engine of war used for butting or battering.

A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.

The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.

The plunger of a hydraulic press.

To butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc.

To fill or compact by pounding or driving.

The most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aries

The first sign of the zodiac which the sun enters at the vernal equinox; the sun is in this sign from about March 21 to April 19

A tool for driving or forcing something by impact

Uncastrated adult male sheep;

Strike or drive against with a heavy impact;

Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically;

Undergo damage or destruction on impact;

Crowd or pack to capacity;