memory stick
nounEtymology From Memory Stick, a Sony brand name.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences One of a series of memory devices manufactured by the Sony Corporation ranging in size from a USB drive down to a flash card.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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:
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- To do this, you can run a script on a computer periodically to check for any attached USB disk drives or memory sticks.2009, Steve Seguis, Windows PowerShell 2 For Dummies, unnumbered page:
- Synonyms
- data stick, pen drive, thumb drive, USB drive
- Related terms
- flashcard, flash card, memory card