mnemonic

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In my case, I needed to validate that a mnemonic was not yet used.

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  1. adjective Relating to, assisting, or intended to assist the memory.
  2. noun A device, such as a formula or rhyme, used as an aid in remembering.

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  • I went to the Bornstein Memory School when I was a kid, and I suggested the song as a mnemonic device.
  • I guess it shows how effective transposing song lyrics are as a mnemonic device, because, more than twenty years later, I know Albania borders on the Adriatic and their chief export is chrome.
  • Another approach: Some people use AUDIENCE as a mnemonic acronym to guide their analysis this way: Analysis: Who are they?
  • Just as I was drifting off, a wispy little voice whispered the word mnemonic into my left ear, and that sat me back up and turned the lights on again. —  AHMM,June2006
  • Still half asleep and wondering how much tequila Elizabeth Anderson had gotten into that one margarita, I wearily asked my unconscious what could the word mnemonic possibly have to do with a weird character named Landmaier and a spook named Max Nome The answer woke me completely. —  AHMM,June2006
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  1. Greek mnēmonikos, from mnēmōn, mnēmon-, mindful; see men-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French mnémonique = Spanish mnemónico = Portuguese Italian mnemonico, from New Latin mnemonicus, from Greek μνημονικός, belonging to memory, from μνήμων (μνημον-), mindful, from μνᾱσθαι, remember: see mind.
 

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