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means Deliberately committing information to memory through repetition or study until you can recall it on demand.

from Traces back to the Latin 'memor,' meaning mindful or remembering, which also gave us 'memory' and 'memorial.' The '-ize' turns it into an action (to make something memorized), and '-ation' makes that action a noun — so the word is literally built to mean 'the process of making remembered.' The Latin root itself likely connects to an ancient Indo-European base having to do with thought and remembrance, shared by other 'mind'-related words across languages.