memo

See also: Memo and mémo

English

Etymology

Clipping of memorandum.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɛməʊ̯/
  • (file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈmɛmoʊ̯/
  • Rhymes: -ɛməʊ

Noun

memo (plural memos)

  1. A short note; a memorandum.
    • 2007, John Yoo, War by Other Means [] , Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN, page 42:
      According to yet another leaked memo, Powell responded the next day. Powell's leaked memo conceded that al Qaeda were not POWs, and that the Taliban individually or as a group might also lose their entitlement to that status.
  2. (programming) A record of partial results that can be reused later without recomputation.
    • 2020, Daniel Zingaro, Algorithmic Thinking: A Problem-Based Introduction, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 86:
      The first is that the recursive call finds its subproblem solution in the memo and returns immediately.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

memo (third-person singular simple present memos, present participle memoing, simple past and past participle memoed)

  1. (informal) To record something; to make a note of something.
  2. (informal) To send someone a note about something, for the record.
    I made sure to memo him about the client's complaints.

Anagrams

Chinese

Etymology

From English memo.

Pronunciation


Noun

memo

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) memo (short note) (Classifier: c)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English memo. Equivalent to a shortening of memorandum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmeː.moː/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: me‧mo

Noun

memo n or m (plural memo's)

  1. memo (reminder, short note)

Japanese

Romanization

memo

  1. Rōmaji transcription of メモ

Portuguese

Adverb

memo

  1. Eye dialect spelling of mesmo.

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmemo/ [ˈme.mo]
  • Rhymes: -emo
  • Syllabification: me‧mo

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic of stuttering.

Noun

memo m (plural memos)

  1. idiot

Adjective

memo (feminine mema, masculine plural memos, feminine plural memas)

  1. silly, stupid

Further reading

Etymology 2

Clipping of memorando.

Noun

memo m (plural memos)

  1. (chiefly Chile, Guatemala, Honduras) memorandum
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