WordNet
n. an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached" [syn: memory, storage, computer storage, store, memory board]
Wikipedia
In computing, memory refers to the computer hardware devices used to store information for immediate use in a computer; it is synonymous with the term " primary storage". Computer memory operates at a high speed, for example random-access memory (RAM), as a distinction from storage that provides slow-to-access program and data storage but offers higher capacities. If needed, contents of the computer memory can be transferred to secondary storage, through a memory management technique called " virtual memory". An archaic synonym for memory is store.
The term "memory", meaning "primary storage" or " main memory", is often associated with addressable semiconductor memory, i.e. integrated circuits consisting of silicon-based transistors, used for example as primary storage but also other purposes in computers and other digital electronic devices. There are two main kinds of semiconductor memory, volatile and non-volatile. Examples of non-volatile memory are flash memory (used as secondary memory) and ROM, PROM, EPROM and EEPROM memory (used for storing firmware such as BIOS). Examples of volatile memory are primary storage, which is typically dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), and fast CPU cache memory, which is typically static random-access memory (SRAM) that is fast but energy-consuming, offering lower memory areal density than DRAM.
Most semiconductor memory is organized into memory cells or bistable flip-flops, each storing one bit (0 or 1). Flash memory organization includes both one bit per memory cell and multiple bits per cell (called MLC, Multiple Level Cell). The memory cells are grouped into words of fixed word length, for example 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 or 128 bit. Each word can be accessed by a binary address of N bit, making it possible to store 2 raised by N words in the memory. This implies that processor registers normally are not considered as memory, since they only store one word and do not include an addressing mechanism.
Typical secondary storage devices are hard disk drives and solid-state drives.
Usage examples of "computer memory".
Also requiring further note is that implicit in the name given to the information store - the computer memory - is the claim that in some way what the computer is doing in holding and processing binary units of information is analogous to what we as humans do with our own memory.
The oft-vindicated Moore's law predicts the doubling of computer memory capacity every 18 months.
More than one of the electronic termites had been systematically destroying computer memory when Flame located them, and not all of the lost material could be replaced from the surviving backups.
Barnes had bid him goodbye in front of a thousand newspickups, after Gage became a recording, and it was there in his computer memory.
Cut off her consciousness from a part of the ship's computer memory?
Any computer memory is composed of two signals,~a yes and a no, that is all you have in binary.
There is a chance that their peripheral radar records would not be kept this longbut as you said about computer memory.
It had taken skill and knowledge on his part to get through the blocks that concealed the computer memory he had wanted.
It also holds the equivalent of twelve hundred terabytes of computer memory.
Still, I find it strange that a burglar would take the time to dump an entire computer memory.
The exact numbers or names that we use to label a given address are arbitrary, just as they are for computer memory.