memo
verbEtymology Clipping of memorandum.
1
Informal To record something; to make a note of something.
2
Informal To send someone a note about something, for the record.
- I made sure to memo him about the client's complaints.
memo
nounUK /ˈmɛməʊ̯/ · CA, US /ˈmɛmoʊ̯/
Etymology Clipping of memorandum.
1
A short note; a memorandum.
- According to yet another leaked memo, Powell responded the next day. Powell's leaked memo conceded that al Qaeda were not POWs, and that the Taliban individually or as a group might also lose their entitlement to that status.2007, John Yoo, War by Other Means […] , Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN, page 42:
2
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences A record of partial results that can be reused later without recomputation.
- The first is that the recursive call finds its subproblem solution in the memo and returns immediately.2020, Daniel Zingaro, Algorithmic Thinking: A Problem-Based Introduction, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 86:
- Derived terms
- agency credit memo, agency debit memo, bench memo, countermemo, deal memo, get the memo, memo for record, memo for the record, Memogate, memoise, memoization, memoize, miss the memo, on memo