muscle memory

noun

: the ability to repeat a specific muscular movement with improved efficiency and accuracy that is acquired through practice and repetition
They practice their routines with mind-numbing repetitiveness, for hours and days, weeks and years, so that each spinning, twisting landing off the high bar becomes an act of muscle memory.E. M. Swift

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Easy to find language when it’s that deeply burned into your muscle memory. Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024 And yet the power of City’s muscle memory is something else. The Athletic Uk Staff, The Athletic, 13 Aug. 2024 The team will now look at the workings of muscle memory on a cellular and molecular level, in an effort to gain new understanding of just how the body holds onto changes made through training. New Atlas, 3 Nov. 2024 The Succession connection helps in other ways: After marking a ballot for Culkin, checking Strong’s box, too, might be a matter of muscle memory for voters. Nate Jones, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for muscle memory 

Word History

First Known Use

1890, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of muscle memory was in 1890

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“Muscle memory.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/muscle%20memory. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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