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  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]: 
 
  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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