Memoir vs. Memory

Memoirnoun

An autobiography; a book describing the personal experiences of an author.

Memoirnoun

A biography; a book describing the experiences of a subject from personal knowledge of the subject or from sources with personal knowledge of the subject.

Memoirnoun

Any form of narrative describing the personal experiences of a writer.

Memoirnoun

A memorial account; a history composed from personal experience and memory; an account of transactions or events (usually written in familiar style) as they are remembered by the writer. See History, 2.

Memoirnoun

A memorial of any individual; a biography; often, a biography written without special regard to method and completeness.

Memoirnoun

An account of something deemed noteworthy; an essay; a record of investigations of any subject; the journals and proceedings of a society.

Memoirnoun

an account of the author's personal experiences

Memoirnoun

an essay on a scientific or scholarly topic

Memoir

A memoir (; from French: mémoire: memoria, meaning memory or reminiscence) is any nonfiction narrative writing based in the author's personal memories. The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual.

Memorynoun

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

Memorynoun

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

Memorynoun

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

Memorynoun

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

Memorynoun

which returns to its original shape when heated

Memorynoun

(obsolete) A memorial.

Memorynoun

A term of venery for a social group of elephants, normally called a herd.

Memorynoun

The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.

Memorynoun

The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.

Memorynoun

The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.

Memorynoun

The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.

Memorynoun

Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory.

Memorynoun

A memorial.

Memorynoun

something that is remembered;

Memorynoun

the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered;

Memorynoun

the power of retaining and recalling past experience;

Memorynoun

an electronic memory device;

Memorynoun

the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes;

Memory

Memory is the faculty of the brain by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action.