Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of memorizing, or of committing to memory.
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- noun The
act of committing something to memory ormemorizing .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun learning so as to be able to remember verbatim
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Examples
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In education, this introduced the concept that rote memorization is not as effective a learning tool as problem solving.
Jenifer Fox: Education, What are we Talking About? Jenifer Fox 2010
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In education, this introduced the concept that rote memorization is not as effective a learning tool as problem solving.
Jenifer Fox: Education, What are we Talking About? Jenifer Fox 2010
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The delightfully pointless nature of the contest, combined with the sweet reward, awakened me to the pleasures of random short-term memorization.
The Next Ten Minutes EdD Andrew Peterson 2010
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The delightfully pointless nature of the contest, combined with the sweet reward, awakened me to the pleasures of random short-term memorization.
The Next Ten Minutes EdD Andrew Peterson 2010
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The delightfully pointless nature of the contest, combined with the sweet reward, awakened me to the pleasures of random short-term memorization.
The Next Ten Minutes EdD Andrew Peterson 2010
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The delightfully pointless nature of the contest, combined with the sweet reward, awakened me to the pleasures of random short-term memorization.
The Next Ten Minutes EdD Andrew Peterson 2010
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Implicit in this amazing and enviable capacity for memorization is the understanding the poem, like the folk song or the popular song is a source of pleasure, reflection and intellectual stimulus.
The Reading : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Using flashcards repeatedly over a few days will also help your long term memorization of facts.
Netvouz - new bookmarks pdboyer 2010
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And why use the word memorization rather than remembering?
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I understand line memorization is hard to do with constant skit changes, but when a performer doesn’t know one line from recollection it seems lazy and uninspired.
Josh Wolk's Pop Culture Club talks Monty Python: Do the shows still hold up? | EW.com 2009
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Memorization, or the tendency of large language models (LLMs) to output entire sequences from their training data verbatim, is a key concern for safely deploying language models.
Emergent and Predictable Memorization in Large Language Models — EleutherAI Stella Biderman 2023
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