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-mnemonic  (nɪˈmɒnɪk)
             

–adjective
1. assisting or intended to assist the memory.
2. pertaining to mnemonics or to memory.

–noun
3. something intended to assist the memory, as a verse or formula.
4. Computers . a programming code that is easy to remember, as STO for “store.”


Use mnemonic in a Sentence

"... with droshkies all awry under incredibly blue skies, which farther away, melt automatically into a pink flush of mnemonic banality". Vladimir Nabokov, 'The Real Life of Sebastian Knight' 

"I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic circuit using stone knives and bearskins".  Spock in 'City on the Edge of Forever'




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Origin:
1753, from Gk. mnemonikos  "of or pertaining to memory."




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