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noun

Computers. a type of reprogrammable memory that retains information even with the power turned off.

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Words nearby flash memory

flash in the pan, flash lamp, flashlight, flashlight fish, flash-lock, flash memory, flash method, flash mob, flashover, flashpacker, flash photography

How to use flash memory in a sentence

The researchers have built a form of flexible phase-change memory, which is closer in speed to normal RAM than flash memory but requires no power to maintain its state.
Our flexible processors can now use bendable RAM|John Timmer|September 9, 2021|Ars Technica
DNA is a thousandfold denser than even flash memory, and another property that’s interesting is that once you make the DNA polymer, it doesn’t consume any energy.
Each of These Microscopic Glass Beads Stores an Image Encoded on a Strand of DNA|Jason Dorrier|June 20, 2021|Singularity Hub
And there is definitely something to finding solace in food, familiarity, and memory.
Everyone at This Dinner Party Has Lost Someone|Samantha Levine|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The idea that January 1st initiates a period of new beginning is not a flash of Hallmark brilliance.
New Year’s Eve, Babylon Style|Candida Moss|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST

That idea is often invoked in regards to the tricks memory plays, but I wonder how it might come into play in other ways.
Daphne Merkin on Lena Dunham, Book Criticism, and Self-Examination|Mindy Farabee|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The folk memory of medieval community life had been wiped out by the industrial revolution.
How Dickens and Scrooge Saved Christmas|Clive Irving|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He has become the most radical pope in modern memory for his economic populism.
How Pope Francis Became the World’s BFF|Jason Berry|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
A flash of surprise and pleasure lit the fine eyes of the haughty beauty perched up there on the palace wall.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
"A camp-fire would hardly flash and die out like that, Sarge," he answered thoughtfully.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
The memory of him shall not depart away, and his name shall be in request from generation to generation.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
So intelligent were her methods that she doubtless had great influence in making the memory of his art enduring.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement

Scientific definitions for flash memory

flash memory

A kind of ROM that retains data when power is turned off and that can be electronically erased and reprogrammed without being removed from the circuit board.