memory card

noun

Digital Technology.

1. a very small, portable electronic device for flash-memory data storage, as in a digital camera, cell phone, or digital media player.

Word History and Origins

Origin of memory card¹

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

Agents also found a GoPro video camera with a memory card inside.

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After securing a warrant to search the camera’s memory card in early May, FBI agents discovered several video files that included one of the named defendants in the case, Camilo Guzman Sepulveda.

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Edward Snowden removed information using a SD memory card he hid on some occasions in a Rubik’s cube.

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I remember when I took the photo, I was still really early on taking photos, and I didn’t have my memory card in the camera.

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They were like, ‘Well, we’re gonna be down the street at Alex’s, so you can just go home and get your memory card’ — because I lived close by — and I went and took more photos.

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