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noun
An inbuilt quality of materials that permanently “remember” their original time and place of creation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
The reflection of an object's own history in its current form.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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History
Coined by Viktor Weisskopf from the name of Ireneo Funes, a character who lost his ability to forget, in Jorge Luis Borges' short story Funes the Memorious (Funes el memorioso, 1942). See -ic, -ity.
