mnemonic : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: mnemonic	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for mnemonic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mnemonic adj of or relating to or involved the practice of aiding the memory; "mnemonic device" Synonym(s): mnemonic, mnemotechnic, mnemotechnical n a device (such as a rhyme or acronym) used to aid recall
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mnemonic \Mnemon"ic\, Mnemonical \Mnemon"ic*al\, a. [Gr. [?], fr. [?] mindful, remembering, [?] memory, [?] to think on, remember; akin to E. mind.] Assisting in memory.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [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)