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English
Etymology
From Memory Stick, a Sony brand name.
Noun
memory stick (plural memory sticks)
- (computing) One of a series of memory devices manufactured by the Sony Corporation ranging in size from a USB drive down to a flash card.
- (computing) 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.
2003, Jon Hall, Paul G. Sery, Red Hat Linux Fedora For Dummies, page 343: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.
2008, Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, page 56:You might be wondering at this point what dark secrets I had locked away on my phone and memory sticks and email.
2009, Steve Seguis, Windows PowerShell 2 For Dummies, unnumbered page:To do this, you can run a script on a computer periodically to check for any attached USB disk drives or memory sticks.
Synonyms
Translations
memory card, flash card
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 記憶卡 / 记忆卡 (jìyìkǎ), 記憶棒 / 记忆棒 (jìyìbàng), 記憶條 / 记忆条 (jìyìtiáo)
- Dutch: Memory Stick m, geheugenstick (nl) m
- Esperanto: memorkarto
- Finnish: muistikortti (fi)
- French: carte mémoire (fr) f
- German: Speicherkarte (de) f, SD-Card f, Multimedia-Card f
- Greek: κάρτα μνήμης (el) f (kárta mnímis)
- Hebrew: כרטיס זיכרון (he) m (kartís zikarón)
- Hungarian: Memory Stick
- Japanese: メモリースティック (memorīsutikku)
- Korean: 메모리 스틱 (memori seutik)
- Norman: badgette dé mémouaithe f (Jersey)
- Persian: کارت حافظه (kârt e hâfeze)
- Polish: karta pamięci (pl) f
- Portuguese: cartão de memória (pt) m
- Russian: ка́рточка па́мяти f (kártočka pámjati), флеш-па́мять (ru) f (flɛš-pámjatʹ), флэш-па́мять (ru) f (flɛš-pámjatʹ), флеш-накопи́тель m (flɛš-nakopítelʹ), флэш-накопи́тель m (flɛš-nakopítelʹ)
- Spanish: memory stick f (mémori stik), tarjeta de memoria f, pincho memorístico m, pincho mnemónico m, pincho memorativo m
- Swedish: Memory Stick n
- Thai: หน่วยความจำ (th) (nùay kwaam jam), เมมโมรี่สติ๊ก (maymmohrêe sàtík)
- Turkish: bellek kartı, hafıza kartı
- Welsh: ffon gof (cy) f, cof bach m, cofbin m
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portable solid-state flash memory storage device
— see flash drive
Translations to be checked
See also