mnemonic
IPA: nɪmˈɑnɪk
noun
- Something (especially a series of ideas, letters, words, etc.) used to help in remembering a thing; a memory aid.
- (computing) The human-readable, textual form of an assembly language instruction, not including operands.
- (obsolete) Synonym of mnemonics (“the study of techniques for remembering anything more easily”)
adjective
- Especially of a series of ideas, letters, words, etc.: intended to help in remembering.
- Of or relating to mnemonics (“the study of techniques for remembering anything more easily”).
- Of or relating to memory.
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Examples of "mnemonic" in Sentences
- “Let cockroaches dig mines” hmm the mnemonic is correct, but the preceding explanation isn’t.
- A mnemonic is a short rhyme, phrase, or other mental technique for making information easier to memorize.
- Then we find mnemonic aid, which is somewhat of a redundancy inasmuch as the word mnemonic alone is defined as "assisting, or aiding memory. '
- Even so, I shall regularly speak in terms of the evil genius (following Descartes 'lead), as a kind of mnemonic for the more general doubt about our cognitive nature.
- 71The intangible objective of the New Jerusalem did not diminish but rather elevated the value of material works, particularly those assisting in mnemonic composition.
- The new mnemonic is C-A-B; we're now supposed to start chest compressions right after calling 911; adjusting the airway comes next, leaving the rescue breaths for last.
- Is your "love of the new" [I won't repeat calling it the Purina Effect, although perhaps they'd be happy I find the name mnemonic for pet food] the sole reason you miss down-level breaks?
- Not only does he not mention the possibility of intervention in mnemonic and sensory structures; it's hard to reconcile such a possibility with his assertion that the linguistic structure that, he finds, disarticulates the Third
- A technique that LaBerge calls mnemonic induction of lucid dreams, or MILD, involves waking up an hour earlier than usual in the morning, recalling your last dream, and going asleep again while thinking, "The next time I'm dreaming, I want to remember I'm dreaming."
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