Memoryとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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 μνήμη (mnḗmē, “memory”) μέρμερος (mérmeros, “anxious”), μέριμνα (mérimna, “care, thought”), 古期英語 mimor (“mindful, remembering”). More at mimmer. Doublet of memoir and memoria.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛm(ə)ɹi/
• (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪm(ə)ɹi/
• ハイフネーション: mem‧o‧ry, mem‧ory

名詞

memory (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 memories)

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

   Synonym: recall

   Memory is a facility common to all animals.

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

   Synonyms: recall, recollection

   I have no memory of that event.

   My wedding is one of my happiest memories.

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

   Synonym: core (dated)

   This data passes from the CPU to the memory.

   • 1987 July 27, Jerry Pournelle, “Law of Expanding Memory: Applications Will Also Expand Until RAM Is Full”, in InfoWorld, volume 9, number 30, InfoWorld Media Group Inc, page 46:

     My first microcomputer had 12K of memory. When I expanded to a full 64K, I thought I had all the memory I'd ever need. Hah. I know better now.

4. The time within which past events can be or are remembered.

   in recent memory

   in living memory

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

   memory metal

   memory plastic

6. (obsolete) A memorial.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene vii]:

     These weeds are memories of those worser hours.

7. (zoology, collective, まれに) A term of venery for a social group of elephants, normally called a herd.

下位語

派生語

• in-memory

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