mnemonic
Verbal device to aid memory; often a short sentence or a rhyme (such as ‘i before e except after c’). A mnemonic is a form of abbreviation.
| Another common example is: ‘Richard of York gave battle in vain’ – a device to aid recollection of the order of colours in the spectrum (rainbow), the initial letters representing red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. |
mnemonic
| In computing, a short sequence of letters used in low-level programming languages (see low-level language) to represent a machine code instruction. |
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