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Memento vs Memo - What's the difference?

memento | memo |

As nouns the difference between memento and memo

is that memento is memento, reminder while memo is memo.

memento

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A keepsake; an object kept as a reminder of a place or event.
    • I kept the shell as a memento of my visit to the seashore.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 16 , author=Denis Campbell , title=Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients' , work=Guardian citation , page= , passage=Many hospitals have not taken simple steps to lessen the distress and confusion which dementia sufferers' often feel on being somewhere so unfamiliar – such as making signs large and easy to read, using colour schemes to help patients find their way around unfamiliar wards and not putting family mementoes such as photographs nearby.}}

    Usage notes

    * The alternate spelling momento is so common, some references now no longer consider it a misspelling.

    Synonyms

    * keepsake * souvenir * (plural) memorabilia

    References

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    memo

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A short note; a memorandum.
  • (computing) A record of partial results that can be reused later without recomputation.

    • Derived terms

    * memoization * memoize

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (informal) To record something; to make a note of something.
  • (informal) To send someone a note about something, for the record.
    • I made sure to memo him about the client's complaints.

    Anagrams

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