Noun

(uncountable) The ability of an organism to record information about things or events with the facility of recalling them later at will.

Memory is a facility common to all animals.

* (rfdate) Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory .

A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.

I have no memory of that event.

(computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).

This data passes from the CPU to the memory .

The time within which past events can be or are remembered.

in recent memory'''''; ''in living '''memory

(attributive, of a material) which returns to its original

(obsolete) A memorial.

* Shakespeare

These weeds are memories of those worser hours.

Noun

(wikipedia history) (wikiversity history lecture)

The aggregate of past events.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}

* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=(Jan Sapp), volume=100, issue=2, page=164

, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Race Finished , passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}

The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.

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, volume=189, issue=13, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Lessons of past cast shadows over Syria , passage=History and experience act as a filter that can distort as much as elucidate. It is largely forgotten now, overlooked in the one-line description of Tony Blair and George W Bush as the men who lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, but there was a wider context to their conviction.}}

A set of events involving an entity.

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A record or narrative description of past events.

A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.

A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.

(informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.

Shared experience or interaction.

There is too much history between them for them to split up now.

He has had a lot of history with the police.