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memory stick

noun

Etymology

From Memory Stick, a Sony brand name.

Definitions

  1. One of a series of memory devices manufactured by the Sony Corporation ranging in size…

    One of a series of memory devices manufactured by the Sony Corporation ranging in size from a USB drive down to a flash card.

  2. A portable solid-state electronic flash memory data storage device equipped with a USB…

    A portable solid-state electronic flash memory data storage device equipped with a USB (or similarly specified) plug for direct connection to a corresponding port; a USB drive, thumb drive or pen drive.

    • The first step to increasing your drive space is to add a new storage device. It can be a hard drive (IDE or SCSI), but also a USB or FireWire memory stick.
    • You might be wondering at this point what dark secrets I had locked away on my phone and memory sticks and email.
    • To do this, you can run a script on a computer periodically to check for any attached USB disk drives or memory sticks.

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No curated loop yet for memory stick. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA