mem·o·ry (mm-r) n. pl. mem·o·ries 1. The mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experience. 2. The act or an instance of remembering; recollection: spent the afternoon lost in memory. 3. All that a person can remember: It hasnt happened in my memory. 4. Something remembered: pleasant childhood memories. 5. The fact of being remembered; remembrance: dedicated to their parents memory. 6. The period of time covered by the remembrance or recollection of a person or group of persons: within the memory of humankind. 7. Biology Persistent modification of behavior resulting from an animals experience. 8. Computer Science a. A unit of a computer that preserves data for retrieval. b. Capacity for storing information: two gigabytes of memory. 9. Statistics The set of past events affecting a given event in a stochastic process. 10. The capacity of a material, such as plastic or metal, to return to a previous shape after deformation. 11. Immunology The ability of the immune system to respond faster and more powerfully to subsequent exposure to an antigen.
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