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say it: ni-MAH-nik
mnemonic is a noun and adjective meaning "a device (such as a rhyme or acronym) used to aid recall". It is pronounced /nɪˈmɑnɪk/ — ni-MAH-nik. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a device (such as a rhyme or acronym) used to aid recall
of or relating to or involved the practice of aiding the memory
“mnemonic device”
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 mnemonic 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.