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mnemonic
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Pronounced "ni-mon-ic." A memory aid. In programming, it is a name assigned to a machine function. For example, COM1 is the mnemonic assigned to serial port #1 on a PC. Programming languages are almost entirely mnemonics. For example, in x86 assembly language, CMP is used to represent the "compare" instruction and JE for "jump if equal."

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Mnemonics have been used as verbal tricks to help people remember just about anything. For example "30 days hath September, April, June and November, etc." is a mnemonic rhyme. "Roy G. Biv" spells out the colors of a rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.

(programming)mnemonic - A word or string which is intended to be easier to remember than the thing it stands for. Most often used in "instruction mnemonic" which are so called because they are easier to remember than the binary patterns they stand for. Non-printing ASCII characters also have mnemonics like NAK, ESC, DEL intended to evoke their meaning on certain systems.
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The present volume provides an intense record of that passage as well as documents a further intellectual transformation since the mid-80s, one on which Buchloh soberly reflects in his introduction: Beginning with work on Haacke (himself always in a hybrid German-American position) and more recently on Richter, Buchloh writes, "I have focused on the aesthetic capacity to construct the mnenomic experience as one of the few acts of resistance against the totality of spectacularization.
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