Mnemonics usage

What is the actual meaning of the word mnemonics that you used i think this is wrong

Mnemonics is device to learn easily by association or poem etc. For example, I often forget name of Vatika shampoo. So, I just recall my own name, which is same meaning as Vatika. For functions of money, there is poem- Money is a matter of functions four- a medium, a measure, as standard, as store. For remembering attributes of what constitutes good money, there is a word- CUPDISH, meaning cognizable, utility, portability, divisibility, indestructibility, standard, and homogeneous

For more details see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic

Thanks for giving such a nice explanation Gulshan ji. In the present English can you list out some commonly used words or give some information on it.

Here is a list of commonly used mnemonics:

Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally.

(Used for order of operations in maths. Parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, Addition, Subtraction)

My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles.

(Used for planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, though you have to add pluto but still easy.)

FANBOYS

(Used to remember conjunctions namely For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So.

VIBGYOR

(Used to remember the color of rainbow and spectrum, violet indigo blue greem yellow orange red.)

There are countless more rajani, also there are 9 types of mnemonics and one of the best way to increase your memory recall power.

Thank you Arun and Gulshanji for your nice explanation.These words are very useful to remember many things.

Mnemonics is the word i first hearing. Thank you rajani for writing this forum and letting us know about it

Thank you for rajani and gulshan ji for asking question and giving Answer.Actually i dont know about mnemonics.

Thanks for giving such a nice explanation Gulshan ji. In the present English can you list out some commonly used words or give some information on it.

Please see the following link for more words.

http://www.mnemonicdictionary.com/