As nouns the difference between memory and mneme
is that
memory is (uncountable) the ability of an organism to record information about things or events with the facility of recalling them later at will while
mneme is persisting effect of memory of past events.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
memory English
Alternative forms
* memorie (archaic)
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
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(obsolete) A memorial.
* Shakespeare
- These weeds are memories of those worser hours.
Synonyms
* (ability to recall) recall
* (stored record) recall, recollection
* (RAM or ROM) core (old-fashioned )
Derived terms
* declarative memory
* eidetic memory
* false memory
* flashbulb memory
* folk memory
* institutional memory
* living memory
* memory bank
* memory card
* memory foam
* memory lane
* photographic memory
* recent memory
* semantic memory
* sensory memory
* trip down memory lane
Related terms
* memo
* memoirs
* memorable
* memorandum
* memorate
* memorial
* memorise
* memorize
See also
* (wikipedia)
* remember
* mnemonics
Statistics
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mneme English
Noun
( en noun)
Persisting effect of memory of past events.
References
* Hutchinson Encyclopaedia
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