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mems

mems is the plural of mem.

Meaning of mem

Noun (1)

mem (plural mems)

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

Noun (2)

mem (plural mems)

  1. A memory access as part of processing.

Noun (3)

mem (plural mems)

  1. (South-Asia, historical) A 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

Noun capitalized: MEMS

MEMS pl (plural only)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym, plural, plural-only) Acronym of microelectromechanical systems.

Questions about mems

What is mems the plural of?
Mems is the plural of mem.
What part of speech is mems?
Mems is a noun.

Words near mems in the dictionary

  1. memristive
  2. memristor
  3. memristors
  4. memrize
  5. memrizes
  6. mems
  7. memsaab
  8. memsaabs
  9. memsahib
  10. memsahibs
  11. memtransistor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mems (page history and authors); MEMS (page history and authors); mem (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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