memo

noun

1. 1

   A short note; a memorandum.

   According to yet another leaked memo, Powell responded the next day. Powell's leaked memo conceded that al Qaeda were not POWs, and that the Taliban individually or as a group might also lose their entitlement to that status.

2. 2

   A record of partial results that can be reused later without recomputation.

   The first is that the recursive call finds its subproblem solution in the memo and returns immediately.

verb

1. 1

   informalTo record something; to make a note of something.

2. 2

   informalTo send someone a note about something, for the record.

   I made sure to memo him about the client's complaints.

Forms

plural

memos

past tense

memoed

past participle

memoed

present participle

memoing

third person singular

memos