Definition of mnemotechnics in English:
mnemotechnics
plural noun ˌniːmə(ʊ)ˈtɛknɪks
another term for mnemonics
Example sentencesExamples
- He has written on such topics as the mnemotechnics of interfaces, the cultural implications of nanotechnology, the aesthetics of speed, and crash test dummies.
- This materialization of mnemotechnics has left the role of the imagination uncertain.
- The question is whether mnemotechnics preserve and enable memories, or - to the contrary - if they produce memories prosthetically.
- A lot of music is about unlearning the mnemotechnics that have been inscribed by the social world, before you had a chance to revolt against them.
- For his last work published in 1591, Bruno once again focused on magic and astrological mnemotechnics.
Derivatives
adjective & noun
If writing remains the enabling limit within coding, this is because we are not dealing with a simple movement from writing to code, but with a new turn to the archival and mnemotechnic structure that is writing.
Example sentencesExamples
- According to the author, the acrostic may first have been used as a mnemotechnic device to ensure completeness in the oral transmission of sacred texts.
- Plato's Phaedrus addressed the mnemotechnic capacity of writing as already a mythic quality.
- The term ‘mnemonic-keyword method’ was coined by Atkinson to describe a mnemotechnic procedure for learning vocabulary in a second language.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Greek mnēmē 'memory' + -technics (see technic).