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    Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time...
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  • memory or memories in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Memory is an organism's ability to store, retain, and recall information. Memory or Memories may...
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    terms RAM, main memory, or primary storage. Archaic synonyms for main memory include core (for magnetic core memory) and store. Main memory operates at a...
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  • On Memory (Greek: Περὶ μνήμης καὶ ἀναμνήσεως; Latin: De memoria et reminiscentia) is one of the short treatises that make up Aristotle's Parva Naturalia...
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    Random-access memory (RAM; /ræm/) is a form of electronic computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data...
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  • Organizational memory (OM), sometimes called institutional memory or corporate memory, is the accumulated body of data, information, and knowledge created...
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    Flash memory is an electronic non-volatile computer memory storage medium that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed. The two main types of flash...
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  • Memory coherence is an issue that affects the design of computer systems in which two or more processors or cores share a common area of memory. In a...
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    Memory management (also dynamic memory management, dynamic storage allocation, or dynamic memory allocation) is a form of resource management applied to...
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    (computer memory) Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) Memory latency Mass storage Memory cell (disambiguation) Memory management Memory leak Virtual memory Memory...
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    Mnemonic (redirect from Memory aid)
    (/nəˈmɒnɪk/ nə-MON-ik) or memory device is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval in the human memory, often by associating the...
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  • Semiconductor memory is a digital electronic semiconductor device used for digital data storage, such as computer memory. It typically refers to devices...
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    In computing, a memory address is a reference to a specific memory location in memory used by both software and hardware. These addresses are fixed-length...
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  • Autoassociative memory, also known as auto-association memory or an autoassociation network, is any type of memory that is able to retrieve a piece of...
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  • In psychology, a false memory is a phenomenon where someone recalls something that did not actually happen or recalls it differently from the way it actually...
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  • resulting in reservation of memory, or load files, mostly device drivers and terminate-and-stay-resident programs (TSRs), into memory. In DOS, CONFIG.SYS is...
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  • Olfactory memory refers to the recollection of odors. Studies have found various characteristics of common memories of odor memory including persistence...
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  • memory bank is a logical unit of storage in electronics, which is hardware-dependent. In a computer, the memory bank may be determined by the memory controller...
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  • Memory overcommitment is a concept in computing that covers the assignment of more memory to virtual computing devices (or processes) than the physical...
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    A memory card is an electronic data storage device used for storing digital information, typically using flash memory. These are commonly used in digital...
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    The Memory Stick is a removable flash memory card format, originally launched by Sony in late 1998. In addition to the original Memory Stick, this family...
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    Error correction code memory (ECC memory) is a type of computer data storage that uses an error correction code (ECC) to detect and correct n-bit data...
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    In computing, virtual memory, or virtual storage, is a memory management technique that provides an "idealized abstraction of the storage resources that...
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  • working memory. Other suggested names were short-term memory, primary memory, immediate memory, operant memory, and provisional memory. Short-term memory is...
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  • science, a memory leak is a type of resource leak that occurs when a computer program incorrectly manages memory allocations in a way that memory which is...
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  • Eidetic memory (/aɪˈdɛtɪk/ eye-DET-ik), also known as photographic memory and total recall, is the ability to recall an image from memory with high precision—at...
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  • A memory hole is any mechanism for the deliberate alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts or other...
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  • A memory institution is an organization maintaining a repository of public knowledge, a generic term used about institutions such as libraries, archives...
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  • A memory law (transl. Erinnerungsgesetz in German, transl. loi mémorielle in French) is a legal provision governing the interpretation of historical events...
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  • Explicit memory (or declarative memory) is one of the two main types of long-term human memory, the other of which is implicit memory. Explicit memory is the...
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