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English

Etymology

Clipping of memorandum

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?m???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?mo??/
• Rhymes: -?m??

Noun

memo (plural memos)

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

Derived terms

• memoization
• memoize

Translations

Verb

memo (third-person singular simple present memos, present participle memoing, simple past and past participle memoed)

1. (informal) To record something; to make a note of something.
2. (informal) To send someone a note about something, for the record.

Anagrams

• mome

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English memo. Equivalent to a shortening of memorandum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?me?.mo?/
• Hyphenation: me?mo

Noun

memo n or m (plural memo's)

1. memo (reminder, short note)

Japanese

Romanization

memo

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Portuguese

Adverb

memo

1. Eye dialect spelling of mesmo.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?memo/, [?me.mo]

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic of stuttering.

Noun

memo m (plural memos)

1. idiot

Adjective

memo (feminine mema, masculine plural memos, feminine plural memas)

1. silly, stupid

References

• “memo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Etymology 2

Clipping of memorando.

Noun

memo m (plural memos)

1. (chiefly Chile, Guatemala, Honduras) memorandum

English

Alternative forms

• memorie (archaic)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman memorie, Old French memoire etc., from Latin memoria (“the faculty of remembering, remembrance, memory, a historical account”), from memor (“mindful, remembering”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (to remember), related to Ancient Greek ????? (mn?m?, “memory”) ???????? (mérmeros, “anxious”), ??????? (mérimna, “care, thought”), Old English mimor (“mindful, remembering”). More at mimmer. Doublet of memoir and memoria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?m(?)?i/
• (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /?m?m(?)?i/
• Hyphenation: mem?o?ry, mem?ory

Noun

memory (countable and uncountable, plural memories)

1. (uncountable) The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later at will.

   Synonym: recall

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

   Synonyms: recall, recollection

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

   Synonym: (dated) core
4. The time within which past events can be or are remembered.

5. (attributive, of a material) Which returns to its original shape when heated

6. (obsolete) A memorial.
7. (zoology, collective, rare) A term of venery for a social group of elephants, normally called a herd.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• in-memory

Related terms

Translations

See also

• memory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• remember
• mnemonics