mem

plural mems · alternative meem · alternative mim

1. The thirteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

plural mems

1. abbreviationclippingslangClipping of memory.

   [Ashley] Palmer-Gilkey responded in the comments, “love you 🤍 cheers to more laughs, more trips, more skinny margs, more mems 💕.”

   2026 April 28, Carson Blackwelder, “How unlikely couple Dr. Dre and ‘The Valley’ star Michelle Saniei crossed paths”, in Page Six

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   We can't BELIEVE it's been #9YearsofLittleMix?! Aside from the girls slaying every #BRITs look they've had, what's your fave mem? (we know it's a hard q!) 👀💖

   2020 August 19, @BRITs, Twitter

   6. Throw Away the Mems [section title] ¶ Now that you’ve got some theme music, it’s time to take that old teddy bear and V-Day card and toss ‘em in the dumpster.

   2023 October 23, Rachel Varina, “How to Get Over a Breakup So You Can *Actually* Move On and Heal”, in Cosmopolitan

2. computingA memory access as part of processing.

plural mems

1. South AsiahistoricalA white European woman, especially the wife of an official; a memsahib.

   With their husbands out all day, the mems had almost nothing to do, unless they were among the few prepared to interest themselves in local charities or community work.

   2009, Selina Hastings, The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, John Murray, published 2010, page 277

2. IndiaalternativeAlternative form of ma'am.

plural mems

1. abbreviationclippingslangClipping of member.

   Great resource! It's going out to all mems of my band today.

   2003 April 10, Greg D, “Press Kits”, in rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz (Usenet), archived from the original on 14 Dec 2025

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   Make him footrace Dayne and then block Dayne. Wait, then we would get 1/2 the amt of quality recording and lose a mem of the community!

   1999 November 17, Jfaspen, “JOE HAMILTON FOR HEISMAN(nDMBc)”, in alt.music.dave-matthews (Usenet), archived from the original on 14 Dec 2025

   And that its^([sic]) not his cousin or grandma laying^([sic]) next to him (he said it was a family outing, I assume he meant other mems of his family and not just his imidiate^([sic]) family).

   2000 December 22, Matt, “OT: going to be away....”, in rec.models.rc.land (Usenet), archived from the original on 14 Dec 2025

1. abbreviationinitialismuncountableeducationInitialism of Master of Engineering Management.
2. abbreviationinitialismuncountableeducationInitialism of Master of Environmental Management.
3. abbreviationuncountablechemistryAbbreviation of 2 or 5-Dimethoxy-4-ethoxyamphetamine.

   All along he made drugs: 2,5-dimethoxy-4-ethoxyamphetamine, or MEM for short, was his Rosetta stone, a "valuable and dramatic compound" that opened the door to a whole class of drugs based on changes at the "4 position" of a molecule's central carbon ring.

   2005 January 30, Drake Bennett, “Dr. Ecstasy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

4. abbreviationuncountablechemistryAbbreviation of β-Methoxyethoxymethyl ether, a protecting group in chemistry.
5. abbreviationinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of monocular estimate method.
6. abbreviationinitialismuncountableInitialism of model exercise mode.