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meme
(encz) | meme, n: |
meme
(wn) | meme
n 1: a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior)
that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic
means (as by imitation); "memes are the cultural
counterpart of genes" |
meme
(foldoc) | meme
/meem/ [By analogy with "gene"] Richard Dawkins's
term for an idea considered as a replicator, especially with
the connotation that memes parasitise people into propagating
them much as viruses do.
Memes can be considered the unit of cultural evolution. Ideas
can evolve in a way analogous to biological evolution. Some
ideas survive better than others; ideas can mutate through,
for example, misunderstandings; and two ideas can recombine to
produce a new idea involving elements of each parent idea.
The term is used especially in the phrase "meme complex"
denoting a group of mutually supporting memes that form an
organised belief system, such as a religion. However, "meme"
is often misused to mean "meme complex".
Use of the term connotes acceptance of the idea that in humans
(and presumably other tool- and language-using sophonts)
cultural evolution by selection of adaptive ideas has become
more important than biological evolution by selection of
hereditary traits. Hackers find this idea congenial for
tolerably obvious reasons.
See also memetic algorithm.
[Jargon File]
(1996-08-11)
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meme
(jargon) | meme
/meem/, n.
[coined by analogy with ‘gene’, by Richard Dawkins] An idea considered as a
replicator, esp. with the connotation that memes parasitize people into
propagating them much as viruses do. Used esp. in the phrase meme complex
denoting a group of mutually supporting memes that form an organized belief
system, such as a religion. This lexicon is an (epidemiological) vector of
the ‘hacker subculture’ meme complex; each entry might be considered a
meme. However, meme is often misused to mean meme complex. Use of the term
connotes acceptance of the idea that in humans (and presumably other tool-
and language-using sophonts) cultural evolution by selection of adaptive
ideas has superseded biological evolution by selection of hereditary
traits. Hackers find this idea congenial for tolerably obvious reasons.
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zememerač
(msas) | zememerač
- surveyor |
zememeračstvo
(msas) | zememeračstvo
- surveying |
zememerac
(msasasci) | zememerac
- surveyor |
zememeracstvo
(msasasci) | zememeracstvo
- surveying |
as a memento
(encz) | as a memento,na památku [fráz.] např. "I keep a stone as a memento of
our holiday" Pino |
memento
(encz) | memento,memento n: Zdeněk Brožmemento,vzpomínka n: Zdeněk Brož |
memento mori
(encz) | memento mori, n: |
mementoes
(encz) | mementoes, |
memento
(czen) | memento,mementon: Zdeněk Brož |
Enthymeme
(gcide) | Enthymeme \En"thy*meme\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to keep in mind,
consider; ? in + ? mind, soul.] (Logic)
An argument consisting of only two propositions, an
antecedent and consequent deduced from it; a syllogism with
one premise omitted; as, We are dependent; therefore we
should be humble. Here the major proposition is suppressed.
The complete syllogism would be, Dependent creatures should
be humble; we are dependent creatures; therefore we should be
humble.
[1913 Webster] |
Memento
(gcide) | Memento \Me*men"to\, n.; pl. Mementos. [L., remember, be
mindful, imper. of meminisse to remember. See Mention.]
A hint, suggestion, token, or memorial, to awaken memory;
that which reminds or recalls to memory; a souvenir.
[1913 Webster]
Seasonable mementos may be useful. --Bacon.
[1913 Webster] |
Memento mori
(gcide) | Memento mori \Me*men"to mo"ri\ [L.]
Lit., remember to die, i.e., that you must die; a warning to
be prepared for death; an object, as a death's-head or a
personal ornament, usually emblematic, used as a reminder of
death.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
Mementos
(gcide) | Memento \Me*men"to\, n.; pl. Mementos. [L., remember, be
mindful, imper. of meminisse to remember. See Mention.]
A hint, suggestion, token, or memorial, to awaken memory;
that which reminds or recalls to memory; a souvenir.
[1913 Webster]
Seasonable mementos may be useful. --Bacon.
[1913 Webster] |
memel
(wn) | Memel
n 1: a city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea; formerly an
important trading town of the Hanseatic League [syn:
Klaipeda, Memel] |
memento
(wn) | memento
n 1: a reminder of past events [syn: memento, souvenir] |
memento mori
(wn) | memento mori
n 1: a reminder (as a death's head) of your mortality |
meme plague
(foldoc) | meme plague
The spread of a successful but pernicious meme,
especially one that parasitises the victims into giving their
all to propagate it. Astrology, BASIC, and the other guy's
religion are often considered to be examples. This usage is
given point by the historical fact that "joiner" ideologies
like Naziism or various forms of millennarian Christianity
have exhibited plague-like cycles of exponential growth
followed by collapses to small reservoir populations.
[Jargon File]
(1996-08-11)
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memetic algorithm
(foldoc) | memetic algorithm
A genetic algorithm or evolutionary algorithm
which includes a non-genetic local search to improve
genotypes. The term comes from the Richard Dawkin's term
"meme".
One big difference between memes and genes is that memes are
processed and possibly improved by the people that hold them -
something that cannot happen to genes. It is this advantage
that the memetic algorithm has over simple genetic or
evolutionary algorithms.
These algorithms are useful in solving complex problems, such
as the "Travelling Salesman Problem," which involves finding
the shortest path through a large number of nodes, or in
creating artificial life to test evolutionary theories.
Memetic algorithms are one kind of metaheuristic.
{UNLP memetic algorithms home page
(http://ing.unlp.edu.ar/cetad/mos/memetic_home.html)}.
(07 July 1997)
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memetics
(foldoc) | memetics
/me-met'iks/ The study of memes.
As of mid-1993, this is still an extremely informal and
speculative endeavor, though the first steps toward at least
statistical rigor have been made by H. Keith Henson and
others. Memetics is a popular topic for speculation among
hackers, who like to see themselves as the architects of the
new information ecologies in which memes live and replicate.
[Jargon File]
(2000-01-09)
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memex
(foldoc) | Memex
Vannevar Bush's original name for hypertext,
which he invented in the 1930s.
{Fantastic article
(http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0051.html)}.
(2000-01-09)
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meme plague
(jargon) | meme plague
n.
The spread of a successful but pernicious meme, esp. one that parasitizes
the victims into giving their all to propagate it. Astrology, BASIC, and
the other guy's religion are often considered to be examples. This usage is
given point by the historical fact that ‘joiner’ ideologies like Naziism or
various forms of millennarian Christianity have exhibited plague-like
cycles of exponential growth followed by collapses to small reservoir
populations.
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memetics
(jargon) | memetics
/me·met'iks/, n.
[from meme] The study of memes. As of early 2003, this is still an
extremely informal and speculative endeavor, though the first steps towards
at least statistical rigor have been made by H. Keith Henson and others.
Memetics is a popular topic for speculation among hackers, who like to see
themselves as the architects of the new information ecologies in which
memes live and replicate.
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