Definition of "member" in English

noun

1. One who belongs to a group.

2. A part of a whole.

   • The I-beams were to become structural members of a pedestrian bridge.
   • The member intertongues and grades laterally with the lower sandstone member of the Pocahontas Formation of Early Pennslyvanian age

3. Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.

4. (euphemistic) The penis.

5. (logic) One of the propositions making up a syllogism.

6. (set theory) An element of a set.

7. (Australia, law) the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court.

8. A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause.

9. (mathematics) Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the equality sign.

10. (computing) A file stored within an archive file.

    • The zip file holding the source code of this application has 245 members.

11. (object-oriented programming) A function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a class.

verb

1. (obsolete outside dialects) Pronunciation spelling of remember.