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Definition of Memory
Memory

The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.

The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.

The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.

The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.

Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory.

A memorial.

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Memory Quotations

You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.
Janet Jackson

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France

Your body has such a memory.
Kristanna Loken

States. Of course, I'm speaking only from memory.
Edgar Wilson Nye

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.
Kurt Cobain

Memory Translations

memory in Afrikaans is herinnering
memory in Danish is erindring, hukommelse
memory in Dutch is geheugen, heugenis, herinnering
memory in Italian is ricordo, ricordo, deposito
memory in Latin is recordatio, memoria, animus
memory in Spanish is recordacion, memoria
memory in Swedish is minne

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