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mnemonic

[ ni-mon-ik ]

adjective

  1. assisting or intended to assist the memory.
  2. pertaining to mnemonics or to memory.


noun

  1. something intended to assist the memory, as a verse or formula.
  2. Computers. a programming code that is easy to remember, as STO for “store.”

mnemonic

/ nɪˈmɒnɪk /

adjective

  1. aiding or meant to aid one's memory
  2. of or relating to memory or mnemonics
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. something, such as a verse, to assist memory
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • mneˈmonically, adverb
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Other Words From

  • mne·moni·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mnemonic1

1660–70; < Greek mnēmonikós of, relating to memory, equivalent to mnēmon- (stem of mnḗmōn ) mindful + -ikos -ic
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mnemonic1

C18: from Greek mnēmonikos, from mnēmōn mindful, from mnasthai to remember
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Example Sentences

It doesn’t care what you’re fond of, or what mnemonic you learned in elementary school.

Young approached the nonprofit Capitol Hill Arts Workshop with an idea for mnemonic animal signs.

These items helped their families to survive but also served as mnemonic devices that combated the erasure of their histories, their existence.

Mitchell uses the term “wishful mnemonics,” coined by a computer scientist in the 1970s.

The Marin Carbon Project’s approach is painstakingly data-driven—Wick loves the mnemonic “Measure, map, model, and monitor to manage.”

As for the creative process of writing mnemonic verses versus songs?

He himself went on to produce The Quiet American and Johnny Mnemonic.

The advent of language is intrinsically linked to memory, and many early languages were simply mnemonic devices.

But this term would have no mnemonic significance to one who knows the word Mars as meaning only one of the planets.

Such misunderstandings, produced by false mnemonic, may easily occur during the examination of witnesses.

On the one hand, it may help to clear up misunderstandings when false mnemonic has been applied.

There is also a reference to this battle on the ice in the Klfsvsa, a mnemonic list of famous heroes and their horses.

The form in which many episodes are cast is not unlike a mnemonic, leaving the story-teller to fill in the details himself.

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