a body of recollections or legends connected with the past that persists among a group of people
a long-lived lymphocyte capable of responding to a particular antigen on its reintroduction, long after the exposure that prompted its production
a polyurethane material that is sensitive to pressure and temperature, used especially in mattresses, where it molds to the shape of an individual’s body
an imaginary place where inconvenient or unpleasant information is put and quickly forgotten
a failure in a program to release discarded memory, causing impaired performance or failure
a supposedly inherited subconscious memory of events in human history or prehistory
a type of memory in which data is stored as a pattern of magnetized regions in a thin layer of magnetic material
an apparent recollection of an event that did not actually occur, especially one of childhood sexual abuse arising from suggestion during psychotherapy
a detachable board containing memory chips, which can be connected to a computer
a hypothetical permanent change in the nervous system brought about by memorizing something; an engram
a property exhibited by certain alloys of recovering their initial shape when they are heated after having been plastically deformed
a technique in which a computer treats peripheral devices as if they were located in the main memory
memory that appears to exist as main storage although most of it is supported by data held in secondary storage, transfer between the two being made automatically as required
the part of short-term memory that is concerned with immediate conscious perceptual and linguistic processing
a memory capable of determining whether a given datum (the search word) is contained in one of its addresses or locations
the memory of a group of people, typically passed from one generation to the next
(in a computer running DOS) the first 640k of memory where programs to be run must be loaded
within or during a time that is remembered by people still alive
memory read at high speed but not capable of being changed by program instructions
deliberately recall pleasant or sentimental memories