content-addressable memory , CAM (Abkürzung)
associative store
associative storage

SAIL's main feature is a symbolic data system based upon an associative store (based on the LEAP system of Jerry Feldman and Paul Rovner).

We therefore attempt to hold the current program "context" in the fast accumulators as the program is executed; since it may be difficult for a programmer or compiler to establish such a current context at each point, it has been proposed that the accumulator array be replaced by an associative store, and this is discussed in 5.5.

It is also known as associative memory, associative storage, or associative array, although the last term is more often used for a programming data structure.

Content-addressable storage, also referred to as associative storage or abbreviated CAS, is a mechanism for storing information that can be retrieved based on its content, not its storage location.