Definitions

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  • adjective Not of or pertaining to memory (the mental faculty).
  • adjective computing Not of or pertaining to memory (computer storage).

Etymologies

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non- +‎ memory

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Examples

  • We can't become Soviet-type consigners of historical giants to nonmemory; we can't revise their great acts downward to make them compatible with a heightened understanding of what they did wrong.

    Judging Our Presidents 2008

  • Embarrassingly I've never heard of Walter Guthrie before posting about his interview with The Cultural Landscape Foundation, and soon afterwards, he passed on quite easily into nonmemory.

    Landscape architects as landscapes 2006

  • Embarrassingly I've never heard of Walter Guthrie before posting about his interview with The Cultural Landscape Foundation, and soon afterwards, he passed on quite easily into nonmemory.

    Archive 2006-06-01 2006

  • The world's second-largest memory-chip maker by revenue after Samsung Electronics Co. also said it will resume making nonmemory chips, where it sees high-growth potential.

    Hynix's Profit Falls 56% 2007

  • Subjectively, my profoundest memory is a nonmemory: I can never remember wanting or trying to be anyone other than myself.

    THE DIFFERENT DRUM M. SCOTT PECK 1987

  • Subjectively, my profoundest memory is a nonmemory: I can never remember wanting or trying to be anyone other than myself.

    THE DIFFERENT DRUM M. SCOTT PECK 1987

  • Such sequences were not formed in control (nonmemory) tasks.

    Frugal In Virginia 2008

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