flashcard

See also: flash card

English

From flash +‎ card.

flashcard (plural flashcards)

A card used to aid rote memorization. One side of the card contains data of one kind, or a question, and the other side contains the associated response which one wants to memorize. For example, one side could contain an English word, and the other side the Spanish translation.
Synonym: flipcard

Coordinate terms: index card, notecard (often coinstantial)

Many people use flashcards to learn languages.
- 2022, Patricia Taxxon, “Like”, in Agnes & Hilda:
  I know I'm bad at this
  I didn't have much practice
  I had a flashcard deck but I left it in my desk last Friday
(electronics) A solid-state digital memory storage format, commonly found on computers, digital cameras and cellphones.
Synonyms: memory card, memory cartridge

memorization aide

Arabic: بِطَاقَة إِسْتَذْكَار f (biṭāqa(t) ʔistaḏkār), بِطَاقَة تَعْلِيمِيَّة f (bitāqa taʕlīmiyya)
Bulgarian: флашка́рта f (flaškárta)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 抽認卡 / 抽认卡 (zh) (chōurènkǎ), 閃卡 / 闪卡 (zh) (shǎnkǎ)
Czech: kartička (cs) f
Dutch: steekkaart f
Finnish: opettelukortti
French: carte mémoire (fr) f, flashcard f
German: Lernkarte f, (collective) Lernkartei f
Greek: κάρτα flash f (kárta flash)
Indonesian: kartu kilas, kartu kosakata, kartu pengingat, kartu soal
Japanese: 教材用のカード (kyōzaiyō no kādo), フラッシュカード (furasshu kādo)
Korean: 플래시 카드 (peullaesi kadeu)
Macedonian: мемо́риска ка́ртичка f (memóriska kártička)
Maltese: leħħa f
Polish: fiszka (pl) f
Portuguese: flash card m, flashcard m
Russian: ка́рточка (ru) f (kártočka), обуча́ющая ка́рточка f (obučájuščaja kártočka), ка́рточка для запомина́ния f (kártočka dlja zapominánija), флэшка́рта f (flɛškárta)
Spanish: flashcard m, tarjeta memorista f, tarjeta mnemotécnica f, tarjeta memorística f, ficha memorativa f, ficha didáctica f, ficha mnemónica f
Swedish: skrivkort n

solid-state digital memory

flashcard m (plural flashcards)