memory

noun (plural memories)

• 1the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information:I’ve a great memory for faces my grandmother is losing her memory the brain regions responsible for memory
• the mind regarded as a store of things remembered:he searched his memory frantically for an answer

• 2something remembered from the past; a recollection:one of my earliest memories is of sitting on his knee the mind can bury all memory of traumatic abuse
• the remembering or recollection of a dead person, especially one who was popular or respected:clubs devoted to the memory of Sherlock Holmes
• the length of time over which people continue to remember a person or event:the worst slump in recent memory

• 3the part of a computer in which data or program instructions can be stored for retrieval.
• capacity for storing information on a computer:the module provides 16Mb of memory