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say it: MEM-ur-ee
memory is a noun meaning "something that is remembered". It carries 5 recorded senses.
something that is remembered
“search as he would, the memory was lost”
the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
“he can do it from memory”
“he enjoyed remembering his father”
the power of retaining and recalling past experience
“he had a good memory when he was younger”
an electronic memory device
“a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached”
the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes
“he taught a graduate course on learning and memory”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for memory come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.