Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

memex

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.26 in modern English

Syllables: memex
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A proposed computer system, implemented with electromechanical controls and microfilm equipment, that would permit a researcher to follow and annotate topics of interest, analogous to later hypertext technologies.

Example Sentences

"Surely when Vannevar Bush imagined his hyperlinked memex or Jorge Luis Borges his Library of Babel or Tim Berners-Lee his World Wide Web, what excited them wasn’t the possibility of reading the boldfaced words “nympho starlets” in a printed novel, racing to the nearest computer to type a U.R.L. into a browser and watching a YouTube clip of James Blunt singing “You’re Beautiful” over scenes of Sharon Tate in “The Fearless Vampire Killers.”"

Etymology

Blend of memory + index, coined by Vannevar Bush in his article As We May Think (1945) in The Atlantic Monthly.

Inflected Forms

memexes (plural)

Questions

What does memex mean?: A proposed computer system, implemented with electromechanical controls and microfilm equipment, that would permit a researcher to follow and annotate topics of interest, analogous to later hypertext technologies.
Where does memex come from?: Blend of memory + index, coined by Vannevar Bush in his article As We May Think (1945) in The Atlantic Monthly.

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