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memory stick

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

Noun

memory stick (plural memory sticks)

  1. 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 (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.2003, Jon Hall, Paul G. Sery, Red Hat Linux Fedora For Dummies, page 343
    • You might be wondering at this point what dark secrets I had locked away on my phone and memory sticks and email.2008, Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, page 56

memory stick meaning in Kannada, Persian and Thai

memory stick in Kannada

ನೆನಹು ಕಡ್ಡಿ, ನೆಪ್ಪು ಕಡ್ಡಿ

memory stick in Persian

memory card, flash card
کارت حافظه kârt e hâfeze

memory stick in Thai

memory card, flash card
หน่วยความจำ nùay kwaam jam, เมมโมรี่สติ๊ก maymmohrêe sàtík

Synonyms of memory stick

Forms of memory stick

pluralmemory sticks

Origin of memory stick

From Memory Stick, a Sony brand name.

Questions about memory stick

What does memory stick mean?
Memory stick means one of a series of memory devices manufactured by the Sony Corporation ranging in size from a USB drive down to a flash card.
What is memory stick in Kannada?
Memory stick in Kannada is ನೆನಹು ಕಡ್ಡಿ, ನೆಪ್ಪು ಕಡ್ಡಿ. See Memory stick meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is memory stick?
Memory stick is a noun.
What is the plural of memory stick?
The plural of memory stick is memory sticks.

Words near memory stick in the dictionary

  1. memory quilts
  2. memory root
  3. memory safety
  4. memory span
  5. memory spans
  6. memory stick
  7. memory sticks
  8. memory T cell
  9. memory T cells
  10. memory typewriter
  11. memory typewriters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: memory stick (page history and authors); memory stick (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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