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Used Definition–adjective | 1. | previously used or owned; secondhand: a used car. |
| 2. | showing wear or being worn out. |
| 3. | employed for a purpose; utilized. |
—Idiom| 4. | used to, accustomed or habituated to: I'm not used to cold weather. They weren't used to getting up so early. |
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Computer Definition–noun | 1. | Also called processor. an electronic device designed to accept data, perform prescribed mathematical and logical operations at high speed, and display the results of these operations. Compare analog computer, digital computer. |
| 2. | a person who computes; computist. |
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Memory Definition–noun, plural -ries. | 1. | the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences. |
| 2. | this faculty as possessed by a particular individua
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l: to have a good memory. |
| 3. | the act or fact of retaining and recalling impressions, facts, etc.; remembrance; recollection: to draw from memory. |
| 4. | the length of time over which recollection extends: a time within the memory of living persons. |
| 5. | a mental impression retained; a recollection: one's earliest memories. |
| 6. | the reputation of a person or thing, esp. after death; fame: a ruler of beloved memory. |
| 7. | the state or fact of being remembered. |
| 8. | a person, thing, event, fact, etc., remembered. |
| 9. | commemorative remembrance; commemoration: a monument in memory of Columbus. |
| 10. | the ability of certain materials to return to an original shape after deformation. |
| 11. | Also called computer memory, storage. Computers. | a. | the capacity of a computer to store information subject to recall. |
| b. | the components of the computer in which such information is stored. |
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| 12. | Rhetoric. the step in the classical preparation of a speech in which the wording is memorized. |
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