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1. Memory-mid-13c., "recollection (of someone or something); awareness, consciousness," also "fame, renown, reputation," from Anglo-French memorie (Old Frenchmemoire, 11c., "mind, memory, remembrance; memorial, record") and directly from Latin memoria "memory, remembrance, faculty of remembering," noun of quality from memor "mindful, remembering," from PIE root *(s)mer- "to remember" (Sanskrit smarati "remembers," Avestan mimara "mindful;" Greekmerimna "care, thought," mermeros "causing anxiety, mischievous, baneful;" Serbo-Croatian mariti "to care for;" Welsh marth "sadness, anxiety;" Old NorseMimir, name of the giant who guards the Well of Wisdom; Old English gemimor"known," murnan "mourn, remember sorrowfully;" Dutch mijmeren "to ponder"). Meaning "faculty of remembering" is late 14c. in English.

the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts,events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previousexperiences.

The ability to remember facts and events that occur in your life and around you

2. Iconic- 1650s, from Late Latin iconicus, from Greek eikonikos "pertaining to an image," from eikon (see icon)

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an icon

something that resembles an image

3. Science- mid-14c., "what is known, knowledge (of something) acquired by study; information;" also "assurance of knowledge, certitude, certainty," from Old French science "knowledge, learning, application; corpus of human knowledge" (12c.), from Latin scientia "knowledge, a knowing; expertness," from sciens(genitive scientis) "intelligent, skilled," present participle of scire "to know," probably originally "to separate one thing from another, to distinguish," related to scindere "to cut, divide," from PIE root *skei- "to cut, to split" (cf. Greekskhizein "to split, rend, cleave," Gothic skaidan, Old English sceadan "to divide, separate;"...

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