memory card

American  

noun

Digital Technology.

memory cards plural

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

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• memory cards
  plural

Etymology

Origin of memory card

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

Investigators found the tablet had been set to record only with an external memory card, but it was turned over without one, the state agency said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Dana seals the camera’s memory card in an evidence envelope.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

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

From Salon • Jun. 30, 2025

"It was sheer gold on my memory card."

From BBC • May 17, 2025

I’d already taken a picture of four suspicious-looking squirrels lined up on the red brick wall outside my neighbor’s house this morning, but other than that, the memory card was empty.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia