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mnemonic |
3 definitions found 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]: mnemonicA 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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