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memory (RFID)
The amount of data that can be stored on the microchip in an RFID tag.
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memory (s) (noun), memories (pl)
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Memory: Mnemosyne
Greek: Mnemosyne (goddess)
Latin:(no equivalent)
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(Latin: memory, remember, thought; retaining and recalling past experiences and information; capacity to store information; ability to recall or to recognize previous experiences; recollection; retention)
(Latin: mens, mentalis; mind, intellectual faculties; mental; memory)
(Greek: memory, to remember; recollection of something or someone; awareness, consciousness of the present and the past)
(Greek > Latin: to recollect, to remember; act of recalling; to recall to memory; to remind of past events)
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A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
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cache memory (s) (noun), cache memories (pl)
In technical usage: that part of a computer's memory where information is kept so the computer can find it faster: The new desktop computer has more than two megabytes of cache memory.
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compact disc read-only memory (s) (noun)
1. A compact disk that is used with a computer (rather than with an audio system).
2. A large amount of digital information that can be stored and accessed, but it cannot be altered by the user.
3. An optical disk that is physically the same as an audio CD, but contains computer data.

"Storage capacity is about 680 megabytes. CD-ROMs are interchangeable between different types of computers."

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electrically alterable read-only memory (s), EAROM (noun)
1. A read-only memory in which selected locations can be reprogrammed for a limited number of times by the application of an electric field; used on IBM computers.
2. A read-only memory which can be reprogrammed electrically in the electric field for a limited number of times, after the entire memory is erased by applying an appropriate electric field.
3. A kind of non-volatile memory used in computers and other electronic devices in order to store small amounts of data that must be saved when the electric power is removed; for example, calibration tables or device configurations.
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electrically erasable programmable read-only memory, EEPROM
1. A method of storing data on microchips.

Usually bytes can be erased and reprogrammed individually.

RFID tags that use EEPROM are more expensive than factory programmed tags, where the number is written into the silicon when the chip is made, but they offer more flexibility because the end user can write an ID number to the tag at the time the tag is going to be used.

2. A form of read-only memory which can be electrically erased and reprogrammed.
3. An integrated-circuit memory chip that has an internal switch to permit a user to erase the contents of the chip and to write new contents into it with electrical signals.
electrically erasable read-only memory, EEROM
A form of read-only memory in which the entire contents can be erased electrically and reprogrammed hundreds of time without damaging the device.
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electron trapping optical memory (s) (noun), ETOM
A method of erasable optical data storage in which information is stored by visible light, then read by illumination with an infrared source that returns trapped electrons to their ground state.

Erasability is achieved by using a higher infrared level than that which is used in reading.

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electronic typewriter, memory typewriter (s) (noun); electronic typewriters, memory typewriters (pl)
1. A typewriter in which the input is provided by an operator, but the output is produced by electronic components.
2. A typewriter that functions with the use of microprocessor technology to provide many of the functions of a word-processing system but which has at most a partial-line visual display.
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electrostatic memory tube (s) (noun), electrostatic memory tubes (pl)
An electron tube in which information is stored with electric charges.
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electrostatic memory, electrostatic storage (s) (noun); electrostatic memories, electrostatic storages (pl)
1. An instrument in which information is stored as electrostatic charges on a dielectric surface (insulating material or a very poor conductor of electric current, but an efficient supporter of electrostatic fields).
2. A storage in which information is kept as the presence or absence of electrostatic charges at specific spot locations, generally on the screen of a special type of cathode-ray tube known as a storage tube.
3. The storage of changeable information in the form of charged or uncharged areas usually on the screen of a cathode-ray tube.
4. A memory which stores information in the form of the presence or absence of electrostatic charges at specific locations; such as, on the screen of a special cathode-ray tube known as a storage tube or cells of dynamic random-access memories.
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Henry had a photographic memory that was never developed.
memory block
Memory on the microchip in an RFID tag is usually divided into sections, which can be read or written to individually.

Some blocks might be locked, so data can't be overwritten, while others are not.

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RAM memory
Random Access Memory memory
This entry is located in the following units: memor-, memen- (page 3) Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies (page 18)
semantic memory (s) (noun), semantic memories (pl)
General memory for anything significant or having meaning, including words, facts, and ideas.
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odors and memory responses
Scientists studying how sleep affects memory have found that the whiff of a familiar scent can help a slumbering brain better remember things that it learned the evening before: Research has shown that regions of the cortex, the thinking and planning part of the brain, communicate during deep sleep with a sliver of tissue deeper in the brain called the hippocampus, which records each day's memories of odors and memory responses.

The hippocampus encodes odors and memory responses by firing sequences back in the cortex, consolidating the memory.

Olfactory sensing pathways of odors and memory responses in the brain which lead more directly to the hippocampus than visual and auditory ones. That may be why smell can be linked so closely to memory.

—Compiled with excerpts from
"To sleep and to smell, and perchance to remember", by Benedict Carey;
in The International Herald Tribune; March 9, 2007; page 8.
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