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memory device

n. a device that preserves information for retrieval [syn: storage device]

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The true information, the coordinates of the highlighted stars, may be held in a crystalline memory device.

Since the second student compared it to the word homes, its obvious that the other speakers sentence was also a memory device of some sort--no doubt one thought up on the spot since it dealt with voting and they were entering the polling place.