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Shadow memory

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shadowingnounThe situation where a person repeats speech immediately as they hear it (usually through earphones).
memory holenounA figurative place to which information is deliberately sent to be forgotten, or to which forgotten or lost information ends up; nowhere, oblivion.
memonounA short note; a memorandum.
memorynoun(uncountable) The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later, usually at will.
sramnoun(electronics) Static random access memory.
memory leaknoun(computing) Any of several faults in the memory allocation logic of a computer or program whereby parts of memory become hidden or unusable.
memory corenoun(science fiction, computing) A (semi-)permanent computer memory storage device that may be extracted, and may or may not be separate from the computer core.
secondary memorynoun(computing) Synonym of secondary storage.
extended memorynoun(computing) The extent of memory above the first megabyte in the address space of later PCs
virtual memorynoun(computing) Memory that appears to be RAM but is being simulated (by a process called paging) on a hard disk; allows a computer to operate as if it had more memory than it actually does, but with some loss of performance
bank switchingnoun(computing) A method to increase the usable memory beyond what the processor normally supports by switching between different areas of memory ("banks") at runtime.
memoizationnoun(computer science) A technique in which partial results are recorded (forming a memo) and then can be re-used later without having to recompute them.
flash memorynoun(computer hardware) A rewritable memory chip that retains its data without a power supply.
memoizernoun(programming) An algorithm or software component that memoizes.
storenoun(mainly North American) A building (or portion thereof) where items may be purchased.
memory safetynoun(programming) Protection from software bugs and security vulnerabilities resulting from improper memory management, such as buffer overflows and dangling pointers.
swap filenoun(computing) A file on disk used as auxiliary memory.
buddy memory allocationnoun(computing theory) A form of memory allocation that divides memory into partitions to try to satisfy a memory request as suitably as possible.
variablenoun(programming) A named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read them.
buffernoun(computing) A portion of memory set aside to temporarily store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.

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