MEMORY DEVICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does memory device mean? 

• MEMORY DEVICE (noun)
  The noun MEMORY DEVICE has 1 sense:

1. a device that preserves information for retrieval

  Familiarity information: MEMORY DEVICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEMORY DEVICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A device that preserves information for retrieval

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

memory device; storage device

Hypernyms ("memory device" is a kind of...):

device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "memory device"):

acoustic storage (a storage device consisting of acoustic delay lines)

auxiliary storage; external storage; secondary storage (a data storage device that is not the main memory of a computer)

buffer; buffer storage; buffer store ((computer science) a part of RAM used for temporary storage of data that is waiting to be sent to a device; used to compensate for differences in the rate of flow of data between components of a computer system)

disc; disk; magnetic disc; magnetic disk ((computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored)

mag tape; magnetic tape; tape (memory device consisting of a long thin plastic strip coated with iron oxide; used to record audio or video signals or to store computer information)

computer memory; computer storage; memory; memory board; storage; store (an electronic memory device)

optical disc; optical disk (a disk coated with plastic that can store digital data as tiny pits etched in the surface; is read with a laser that scans the surface)

push-down storage; push-down store; stack (a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO))

recording (a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded)

register ((computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind)

 Context examples 

A cap for a medication that contains a memory device designed to indicate if the medication has been taken.

(Compliance Cap, NCI Thesaurus)

Any memory device that retains its stored data when the power is switched off.

(Persistent Memory Device, NCI Thesaurus)

The research team is currently developing a brain-like memory device using the neuromorphic network material.

(Neuromorphic Metallic Nanowire Network Shows Human Brain-Like Functions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A type of read only memory device that can be written to after manufacture, erased, and reused.

(Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

The team intends to design the memory device to operate using fundamentally different principles than those used in current computers.

(Neuromorphic Metallic Nanowire Network Shows Human Brain-Like Functions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

For example, while computers are currently designed to spend as much time and electricity as necessary in pursuit of absolutely optimum solutions, the new memory device is intended to make a quick decision within particular limits even though the solution generated may not be absolutely optimum.

(Neuromorphic Metallic Nanowire Network Shows Human Brain-Like Functions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)