Reserving memory moment to moment, as needed, without having to reserve a fixed amount ahead of time. Modern operating systems perform dynamic memory allocation for their own use. They may also ...

Memory that lingers for a moment (or even less than a second) could be described as short-term memory, while any kind of information that is preserved for remembering at a later point can be ...

A person who started learning the alphabet on a particular afternoon in childhood doesn’t need to revisit that moment to remember (thanks to semantic memory) that the letter P comes after M.

In contrast, antiferromagnets have alternating spin directions, resulting in no net magnetic moment. Despite this, the oppositely aligned spin directions can be flipped to represent two distinct ...