a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation)
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meme::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | acculturation, culture |
memes are the cultural counterpart of genes.
Examples of meme
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Categories include best fan cover, most viral dance and best music hashtag meme.
From the freep.com
A successful meme, he speculated, might pass from person to person like a virus.
From the economist.com
When your product idea turns into a meme, you're probably doing something right.
From the techcrunch.com
The series employs an artistic style reminiscent of the Dolan DuckInternet meme.
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However, he also describes a self-correcting meme, highly resistant to mutation.
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That list and the melancholic way she delivers her lines, deserves to be a meme.
From the guardian.co.uk
To Zweigart, the site's evolved into much more than just another goofy cat meme.
From the businessweek.com
The basic unit in which a message is transmitted in culture jamming is the meme.
From the en.wikipedia.org
And if we believe the current web meme Scared Bros in a Haunted House, it works.
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- A cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation); "memes are the cultural counterpart of genes"
- A meme (/u02C8miu02D0m/ MEEM) is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture". A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme...
- The Morlocks are a group of several fictional comic book mutants associated with the X-Men in the Marvel Comics universe. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Paul Smith, they were named after the subterranean race of the same name in H. G. Wells' novel The Time Machine. ...
- Meme is a department of Southwest Province in Cameroon. The department covers an area of 3,105u00A0kmu00B2 and as of 2001 had a total population of 300,318.The capital of the department lies at Kumba.
- The term Internet meme (rhyming with "cream") is used to describe a concept that spreads swiftly via the Internet. The term is a reference to the concept of memes, although this concept refers to a much broader category of cultural information.
- Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another. ...
- (Memes) are ideas which are replicators. In other words, any idea (or theory, or attitude, or skill etc.) which is passed from one person to another through behaviour (i.e. not by genes) is a meme. You might think of it as the psychological analogue of a gene.
- An image, video, phrase, etc., that is passed electronically from one Internet user to another.
- A self-replicating unit of cultural meaning, as understood by biologist Richard Dawkins. Transmitted socially among individuals of different generations, memes evolve through processes of mutation and natural selection. ...
