Meaning

• The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later at will.

  "Memory is a facility common to all animals."

• A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.

  "I have no memory of that event."

• The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).

  "This data passes from the CPU to the memory."

• The time within which past events can be or are remembered.

  "in recent memory; in living memory"

• (of a material) which returns to its original shape when heated

  "Memory metal; memory plastic."

• A memorial.

• (collective) A term of venery for a social group of elephants, normally called a herd.