ALL meanings of meme
meme
M m - noun meme a cultural item that is transmitted by repetition and replication in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of genes. a cultural item in the form of an image, video, phrase, etc., that is spread via the Internet and often altered in a creative or humorous way. 1
- verb without object meme to create and spread memes: He spends a lot of time memeing and sharing his videos with friends. 1
- verb with object meme to make the subject of a meme: cute cats that get memed. 1
- noun Definition of meme in Technology (philosophy) /meem/ [By analogy with "gene"] Richard Dawkins's term for an idea considered as a replicator, especially with the connotation that memes parasitise people into propagating them much as viruses do. Memes can be considered the unit of cultural evolution. Ideas can evolve in a way analogous to biological evolution. Some ideas survive better than others; ideas can mutate through, for example, misunderstandings; and two ideas can recombine to produce a new idea involving elements of each parent idea. The term is used especially in the phrase "meme complex" denoting a group of mutually supporting memes that form an organised belief system, such as a religion. However, "meme" is often misused to mean "meme complex". Use of the term connotes acceptance of the idea that in humans (and presumably other tool- and language-using sophonts) cultural evolution by selection of adaptive ideas has become more important than biological evolution by selection of hereditary traits. Hackers find this idea congenial for tolerably obvious reasons. See also memetic algorithm. 1
- noun meme An element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation. 1
- countable noun meme A meme is something such as a video, picture, or phrase that a lot of people send to each other on the Internet. 0
- noun meme an idea or element of social behaviour passed on through generations in a culture, esp by imitation 0
- noun meme an image or video that is spread widely on the internet, often altered by internet users for humorous effect 0
- noun meme a unit of cultural information, as a concept, belief, or practice, that spreads from person to person in a way analogous to the transmission of genes 0