memorial /-ōrˈ or -örˈ/ adjective

1. Serving or intended to preserve the memory of anything
2. Done in remembrance of a person, event, etc
3. Relating to memory
4. Remembered (obsolete)

1. Something which serves to keep in remembrance
2. A monument
3. A donation to charity in memory of someone who has died (US)
4. A memorandum (obsolete)
5. A written statement of facts
6. A record
7. Memory (obsolete)
8. (in pl) historical or biographical records

memorˈialist noun

A person who writes, signs or presents a memorial

memorˈialize or memorˈialise transitive verb

1. To present a memorial to
2. To commemorate
3. To petition by a memorial

memorˈiter adverb (Latin)

1. From memory
2. By heart

memˈorizable or memˈorisable adjective

memorīzāˈtion or memorīsāˈtion noun

memˈorize or memˈorise transitive verb

1. To commit to memory
2. To cause to be remembered (Shakespeare)
3. To record, celebrate (archaic)

memˈorizer or memˈoriser noun

Memorial Day noun

A day (Monday nearest 30 May) kept in honour of US servicemen killed in war (orig known as Decoration Day and kept, in most parts of the USA on 30 May, in honour of men killed in the US Civil War, 1861–65)

memoria technica noun (Latin)

1. Artificial memory
2. A mnemonic device

memory bank noun (computing)

A set of memory chips

memory board or memory card noun

An expansion card providing additional memory for a microcomputer

memory foam noun

A dense polyurethane foam that moulds under pressure or heat, used in some mattresses, pillows, etc.

memory lane noun (informal)

An imaginary place where one retains fond memories of past events

memory leak noun (computing)

An informal term for the situation in which a program fails to release all the memory taken to execute a procedure

memory manager noun

The part of an operating system or other program that controls access to a computer's memory

memory mapping noun

A technique whereby a computer treats peripherals as part of main memory

memory-resˈident adjective

(of a computer program) able to be temporarily removed from and recalled to a screen while remaining in a computer's memory

memory span noun (psychology)

The capacity of a person's short-term memory, typically about seven items

Memory Stick® noun (computing)

A type of flash drive (qv under flash)

memory trace noun (psychology)

A hypothetical change in the cells of the brain caused by the taking-in of information, etc

a memory like a sieve see under sieve

in living memory

Within the memory of people still alive

in memorˈiam

1. To the memory of
2. In memory