memo
English
Etymology
Clipping of memorandum.
Pronunciation
Noun
memo (plural memos)
- 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.
- (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
a short note
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Verb
memo (third-person singular simple present memos, present participle memoing, simple past and past participle memoed)
- (informal) To record something; to make a note of something.
- (informal) To send someone a note about something, for the record.
- I made sure to memo him about the client's complaints.
Chinese
Pronunciation
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English memo. Equivalent to a shortening of memorandum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmeː.moː/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: me‧mo
Portuguese
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmemo/ [ˈme.mo]
- Rhymes: -emo
- Syllabification: me‧mo
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic of stuttering.
Further reading
- “memo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Etymology 2
Clipping of memorando.
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