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Mem has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

the 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

"The scribe carefully traced the mem, the thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, as he copied the ancient scroll."

mem
2

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

"She received her mem from the university after successfully completing all engineering management requirements."

3

A memory access as part of processing.

4

Initialism of Master of Engineering Management.

In plain English: A mem is an internet joke image that combines funny text with a picture to make people laugh online.

"She shared a funny mem with her friends on social media."

Usage: Mem is the name for the 13th letter in several ancient Semitic writing systems like Phoenician and Arabic. It also refers to a single unit of computer memory accessed during data processing tasks.

Example Sentences
"She shared a funny mem with her friends on social media." noun
"The old mem in the attic was covered in dust and cobwebs." noun
"He found a rare mem from his childhood tucked inside the book." noun
"That strange mem on the wall has been there since the house was built." noun
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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
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Origin

The word "mem" comes from the Phoenician language, where it originally meant "water." It traveled into English as a doublet of the letter name "mu," retaining its ancient root meaning rather than evolving to describe something else entirely.

Rhyming Words
gori mem aff'd mem
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