memory    
     

   

       1.The mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experience. 
       2.The act or an instance of remembering; recollection: spent the afternoon
        lost in memory. 
       3.All that a person can remember: It hasn't happened in my memory. 
       4.Something remembered: pleasant childhood memories. 
       5.The fact of being remembered; remembrance: dedicated to their parents' 
       memory. 
       6.The period of time covered by the remembrance or recollection of a 
       person or group of persons: within the memory of humankind. 
       7.Biology. Persistent modification of behavior resulting from an animal's
        experience. 
       8.Computer Science. 
             a.A unit of a computer that preserves data for retrieval. 
             b.Capacity for storing information: two gigabytes of memory. 
       9.Statistics. The set of past events affecting a given event in a 
       stochastic process. 
      10.The capacity of a material, such as plastic or metal, to return to a 
      previous shape after deformation. 
      11.Immunology. The ability of the immune system to respond faster and more
       powerfully to subsequent
         exposure to an antigen.
         
         
         (dictionary.com)