[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

memory \mem"ory\, n.; pl. memories. oe. memorie, of.
   memoire, memorie, f. m'emoire, l. memoria, fr. memor
   mindful; cf. mora delay. cf. demur, martyr, memoir,
   remember.
   1913 webster
   1. the faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge
      of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.
      1913 webster

            memory is the purveyor of reason.     --rambler.
      1913 webster

   2. 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.
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   3. the actual and distinct retention and recognition of past
      ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth;
      memories of foreign lands.
      1913 webster

   4. the time within which past events can be or are
      remembered; as, within the memory of man.
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            and what, before thy memory, was done
            from the begining.                    --milton.
      1913 webster

   5. 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.
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            the memory of the just is blessed.    --prov. x. 7.
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            that ever-living man of memory, henry the fifth.
                                                  --shak.
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            the nonconformists . . . have, as a body, always
            venerated her elizabeth's memory.   --macaulay.
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   6. a memorial. obs.
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            these weeds are memories of those worser hours.
                                                  --shak.
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   syn: memory, remembrance, recollection, reminiscence.

   usage: memory is the generic term, denoting the power by
          which we reproduce past impressions. remembrance is an
          exercise of that power when things occur spontaneously
          to our thoughts. in recollection we make a distinct
          effort to collect again, or call back, what we know
          has been formerly in the mind. reminiscence is
          intermediate between remembrance and recollection,
          being a conscious process of recalling past
          occurrences, but without that full and varied
          reference to particular things which characterizes
          recollection. "when an idea again recurs without the
          operation of the like object on the external sensory,
          it is remembrance; if it be sought after by the mind,
          and with pain and endeavor found, and brought again
          into view, it is recollection." --locke.
          1913 webster

   to draw to memory, to put on record; to record. obs.
      --chaucer. gower.
      1913 webster
see also:
memories demur martyr memoir remember memory 
remembrance recollection reminiscence to draw to memory 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

memory
     n 1: something that is remembered; "search as he would, the
          memory was lost"
     2: the cognitive processes whereby past experience is
        remembered; "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed
        remembering his father" syn: remembering
     3: the power of retaining and recalling past experience; "he
        had a good memory when he was younger" syn: retention,
        retentiveness
     4: an electronic memory device; "a memory and the cpu form the
        central part of a computer to which peripherals are
        attached" syn: computer memory, storage, computer
        storage, store, memory board
     5: the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory
        processes; "he taught a graduate course on learning and
        memory"
see also:
remembering retention retentiveness computer memory storage computer storage 
store memory board 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

78 moby thesaurus words for "memory":
   ram, anamnesis, anniversaries, archetypal pattern, archetype,
   awareness, celebrating, celebration, ceremony, cognizance,
   commemoration, consciousness, disk memory, dressing ship,
   drum memory, engram, fanfare, fanfaronade, father image, festivity,
   flourish of trumpets, heroic legend, high-speed memory, holiday,
   homage, honor, image, imago, immortal name, immortality, jubilee,
   legend, looking back, marking the occasion, memento,
   memorialization, memory trace, memory tubes, mind, observance,
   ovation, recall, recollection, reexperiencing, reflection,
   rejoicing, religious rites, reliving, remembrance, reminiscence,
   respect, retention, retentiveness, retrospection, revel, revival,
   rite, ritual observance, salute, salvo, solemn observance,
   solemnization, souvenir, storage, storage system, storage unit,
   tape memory, testimonial, testimonial banquet, testimonial dinner,
   thought, toast, traumatic trace, tribute, triumph,
   unconscious memory, undying fame, youth

[4] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

memory
     
         these days, usually used synonymously with random
        access memory or read-only memory, but in the general sense
        it can be any device that can hold data in
        machine-readable format.
     
        1996-05-25
     
     
see also:
random access memory read-only memory data machine-readable 

[5] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

memory, time of. according to the english common law, which has been altered 
by 2  3 wm. iv., c. 71, the time of memory commenced from the reign of 
richard the first, a. d. 1189. 2 bl. com. 31. 
     2. but proof of a regular usage for twenty years, not explained or 
contradicted, is evidence upon which many public and private rights are 
held, and sufficient for a jury in finding the existence of an immemorial 
custom or prescription. 2 saund. 175, a, d; peake's ev. 336; 2 price's r. 
450; 4 price's r. 198. 

[6] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

memory. understanding; a capacity to make contracts, a will, or to commit a 
crime, so far as intention is necessary. 
     2. memory is sometimes employed to express the capacity of the 
understanding, and sometimes its power; when we speak of a retentive memory, 
we use it in the former sense; when of a ready memory, in the latter. shelf. 
on lun. intr. 29, 30. 
     3. memory, in another sense, is the reputation, good or bad, which a 
man leaves at his death. this memory, when good, is highly prized by the 
relations of the deceased, and it is therefore libelous to throw a shade 
over the memory of the dead, when the writing has a tendency to create a 
breach of the peace, by inciting the friends and relations of the deceased 
to avenge the insult offered to the family. 4 t. r. 126; 5 co. r. 125; hawk. 
b. 1, c. 73, s. 1. 

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