Noun

(uncountable) Capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to learn and comprehend.

* 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5

Not so, however, with Tarzan, the man-child. His life amidst the dangers of the jungle had taught him to meet emergencies with self-confidence, and his higher intelligence resulted in a quickness of mental action far beyond the powers of the apes.

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(countable) An entity that has such capacities.

* Tennyson

The great Intelligences fair / That range above our mortal state, / In circle round the blessed gate, / Received and gave him welcome there.

(uncountable) Information]], usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile [[activity, activities.

(countable) A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.

(dated) Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.

* Clarendon

He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favourites.

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.