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Meaning of "main memory" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MAIN MEMORY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MAIN MEMORY

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Main memory is a noun.
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WHAT DOES MAIN MEMORY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

main memory

Computer data storage

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data. It is a core function and fundamental component of computers. The central processing unit of a computer is what manipulates data by performing computations. In practice, almost all computers use a storage hierarchy, which puts fast but expensive and small storage options close to the CPU and slower but larger and cheaper options farther away. Often the fast, volatile technologies are referred to as "memory", while slower permanent technologies are referred to as "storage", but these terms can also be used interchangeably. In the Von Neumann architecture, the CPU consists of two main parts: control unit and arithmetic logic unit. The former controls the flow of data between the CPU and memory; the latter performs arithmetic and logical operations on data.

Definition of main memory in the English dictionary

The definition of main memory in the dictionary is the central memory-storage facility in a computer.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MAIN MEMORY

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main line
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main office
main plane
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Main Street
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WORDS THAT END LIKE MAIN MEMORY

armory
buffer memory
cache memory
collective memory
commit to memory
episodic memory
erasable programmable read only memory
extended memory
long-term memory
memory
nonvolatile memory
photographic memory
random access memory
read only memory
screen memory
selective memory
semantic memory
short-term memory
video memory
virtual memory
working memory

Synonyms and antonyms of main memory in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «main memory» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MAIN MEMORY

Find out the translation of main memory to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of main memory from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «main memory» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

主存储器
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la memoria principal
570 millions of speakers

English

main memory
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मुख्य स्मृति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الذاكرة الرئيسية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Основная память
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

memória principal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রধান স্মৃতি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

la mémoire principale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ingatan utama
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Arbeitsspeicher
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

メインメモリ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

메인 메모리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Memori utama
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bộ nhớ chính
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முதன்மை நினைவகம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मुख्य स्मृती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ana hafıza
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

memoria principale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pamięć główna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Основна пам´ять
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

memorie principală
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κύρια μνήμη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hoof geheue
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

huvudminne
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hovedminnet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of main memory

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MAIN MEMORY»

The term «main memory» is regularly used and occupies the 67.627 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MAIN MEMORY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about main memory

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAIN MEMORY»

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How Computers Work: Processor and Main Memory
Unlike most explanations of how computers work which are a lot of analogies or require a background in electrical engineering, this book will tell you precisely what each of them is and how each of them works without requiring any previous ...
Roger Young, 2009
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Write Great Code
The one thing that many people tend to forget, however, is that a BSS section still requires main memory at runtime. Even though the executable file size may be smaller, each byte of data you declare in your program translates to one byte of ...
Randall Hyde, 2006
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Computer Architecture
4.7 Virtual Memories In most modern computers, the physical main memory is not as large as the address space spanned by an address issued by the processor. Here, the virtual memory technique is used to extend the apparent size of the ...
A.P.Godse, D.A.Godse, 2010
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Memory Systems and Pipelined Processors
For data writes, policies for all cases of hits and misses and writing into the cache and main memory are needed. Write Hit After the early select process determines that the write will hit in the cache (that is, the tags match), the write must update ...
Harvey G. Cragon, 1996
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Encyclopedia of Database Technologies and Applications
But in recent years, main memories have become cheaper and grown to apoint that for some fields of application it allows one to keep the whole information of a database in main memory and therefore speed up operation. This article focuses  ...
Laura C. Rivero, Jorge H. Doorn, Viviana E. Ferraggine, 2006
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The X86 Microprocessors: Architecture And Programming (8086 ...
An important point to note and remember at all times is that a cache stores only a copy' of a portion of the content of main memory. Compared to the size of the main memory, the cache is many times smaller. So, at any time, the 'large main ...
Das Lyla B, 2010
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Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk
When placed in this perspective, the TLB is clearly seen to function as a tags array for the main memory cache as well as the actual cache hierarchy fronting main memory. The TLB's advantage is that, since it is typically situated on-CPU, it has ...
Bruce Jacob, Spencer Ng, David Wang, 2010
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The Cache Memory Book
Jim Handy. Table 4.4. N+l Private Read. Set main memory Usage-Mode bit. Write to cache line. Update status to Dirty. From System Bus Table 4.7. Firefly Shared Valid Exclusive Dirry From CPU Bus 170 MAINTAINING COHERENCY IN ...
Jim Handy, 1998
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In-Memory Data Management: Technology and Applications
0.00001 0.0001 0.001 0.01 0.1 1 10 100 1000 10000 100000 1000000 10000000 100000000 Main Memory Flash Drives Disk Drives 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 U S $ / M B Year Fig. 1.2 Storage price ...
Hasso Plattner, Alexander Zeier, 2012
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Computer Architecture
Programs that are not currently needed in main memory are transferred into auxiliary memory that provides the space for the programs that is to be reside in main memory presently. At the second level there is main memory. It is the called  ...
Nirmala Sharma, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MAIN MEMORY»

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Cray to build Australia's biggest supercomputer - Hardware - News …
Raijin has 57,472 Intel 2.6GHz Xeon Sandy Bridge cores in 3596 compute nodes, around 160TB main memory and a peak performance of 1.2 ... «iT News, Jul 15»
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Simple but elusive – why are we still talking about HIV drug delivery?
My main memory of the last IAS conference I attended, held in Vienna in 2010, was a resounding standing ovation for a presentation (including ... «Medical Xpress, Jul 15»
3
G DATA BankGuard Technology Awarded Best Banking Browser …
G DATA BankGuard compares the version of the library currently stored in the main memory with a trustworthy copy generated by BankGuard ... «PR Web, Jul 15»
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Alienware M17X R2 Review | GearNuke
In addition the system was also equipped with 16GB DDR3 main memory and a hybrid SSD solution for storage. The storage configuration ... «GearNuke, Jul 15»
5
What If NUMA Scaling Was Easier And Cheaper?
In theory, the NumaQ 3D torus interconnect can link together up to 4,096 server nodes and 256 TB of main memory. (The node ID in the ... «The Platform, Jul 15»
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Madam Black's Jethro Skinner on Getting Cool With Being Poor
But my main memory was hanging out with Pearl [Everard], who plays Tilly. She hugely out-cooled all of us adult actors. She was the dude on ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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2014 ACM Turing Award-Winner Michael Stonebraker to Deliver …
After joining MIT, he was the principal architect of C-Store (a column store commercialized by Vertica), H-Store, a main memory OLTP engine ... «Business Wire, Jul 15»
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SGI Launches UltraViolet Supers Ahead Of Schedule
... high instructions per clock across integer workloads, and support DDR4 main memory, which runs faster than DDR3 main memory and which ... «The Platform, Jul 15»
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Have researchers just sounded the death knell for RAM?
What is likely to happen is that system memory and main memory will merge. HP is already working on Memristor, the Graal of unified memory, ... «TechRadar, Jul 15»
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OS X 10.10.4 Best Improvement is Memory Management
The main memory hogs are though the three browsers I use with dozens of tabs open on each. Firefox and Google Chrome use up the most ... «I4U News, Jul 15»

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