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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mnemonic \Mne*mon"ic\, Mnemonical \Mne*mon"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ?,
fr ? mindful, remembering, ? memory, ? to think on
remember; akin to E. mind.]
Assisting in memory.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
mnemonic
adj : of or relating to or involved the practice of aiding the
memory; "mnemonic device" [syn: {mnemotechnic}, {mnemotechnical}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
mnemonic
A word or string which is intended to be easier
to remember than the thing it stands for Most often used in
"{instruction mnemonic}" which are so called because they are
easier to remember than the {binary} patterns they stand for
Non-printing {ASCII} characters also have mnemonics like
{NAK}, {ESC}, {DEL} intended to evoke their meaning on certain
systems.
(1995-05-11)
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