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  DRAM

  abbreviation

  dynamic RAM.

dram

¹ American  

[dram] / dræm /

noun

• drams
  plural

1. Measurements.

   1. a unit of apothecaries' weight, equal to 60 grains, or 1/8 (0.125) ounce (3.89 grams).

   2. 1/16 (0.0625) ounce, avoirdupois weight (27.34 grains; 1.77 grams). dr., dr

2. fluid dram.

3. a small drink of liquor.

4. a small quantity of anything.

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verb (used without object)

drammed, dramming

1. Archaic. to drink drams; tipple.

verb (used with object)

drammed, dramming

1. Archaic. to ply with drink.

DRAM ² American  

[dee-ram] / ˈdiˌræm /

abbreviation

Computers.

1. dynamic RAM.

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dram ¹ British  

/ dræm /

noun

1. one sixteenth of an ounce (avoirdupois). 1 dram is equivalent to 0.0018 kilogram

2. Also called: drachm, drachma. one eighth of an apothecaries' ounce; 60 grains. 1 dram is equivalent to 0.0039 kilogram

3. a small amount of an alcoholic drink, esp a spirit; tot

4. the standard monetary unit of Armenia, divided into 100 lumas

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DRAM ² British  

/ ˈdiːræm /

acronym

1. dynamic random access memory: a widely used type of random access memory See RAM 1

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noun

1. a chip containing such a memory

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• half-dram
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• drams
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of dram

1400–50; late Middle English dramme, assimilated variant of dragme < Old French < Late Latin dragma, Latin drachma drachma

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Example Sentences

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dram DRAM drams drammed dramming

Oddly, Sphere’s “Oz” loses a dram of its spellcraft once audiences touch down in Munchkinland.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025

To him, spirits provided what he called “accessible luxury” to customers — a dram of the good life even in an unstable economy.

From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2023

White has just played 90. b2-b3 when the dram really kicks in.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 2022

And I remember my own short-lived stint in panto with the local am dram company.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2021

“It was some broken wittles—that’s what it was—and a dram of liquor, and a pie.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Computer simulations suggest that the method could lower switching energy by several orders of magnitude compared with leading memory technologies used or being developed today, including DRAM, STT-MRAM and emerging SOT-MRAM devices.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

Unlike general-purpose DRAM, HBM is a specialized type of memory that is faster and more power-efficient, making it ideal for artificial intelligence.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

The three together dominate the business of memory chips called DRAM, which get used alongside Nvidia’s processor chips for AI computing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

SK Hynix has a narrow lead in dynamic random-access memory, or DRAM, with a 34% share of the market as of the third quarter of 2025, beating Micron’s 26%, Counterpoint Research figures say.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

The soaring cost of memory components like dynamic random-access memory chips, or DRAM, is a real concern.

From Barron's ● Mar. 9, 2026

Line of Duty launched in 2012 and went on to become one of the most popular TV drams of the last decade.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026

“So you have those thoughts. Whatever their drams and goals are, I’m OK with. The ones we are honoring, we know this is their last.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2019

Cullen, 59, recalls the noise it used to make: the clatter of drams packed with coal being raised from the shaft.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2016

While True Detective was as much of a standard police procedural as any of the other cop drams on TV, what differentiated it was all that “Time is a flat circle” talk that everyone quotes.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 23, 2014

One week later gave him two drams more of Malaria, to be taken six hours apart.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz

Saul was profoundly conscious of the yoke; only he had not drammed that his own deliverance could come from such a quarter.

From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon

For until the third century no one drammed of understanding the "John" of Rev. i.

From The Making of the New Testament by Benjamin Wisner Bacon

"I don't like to hear about that dramming business," was Val's comment to me later.

From Up in Ardmuirland by Michael Barrett

Chance, my dear Bob,—chance is ten times a more intoxicating liquor than champagne, and once take to "dramming" with fortune, and you may bid a long adieu to sobriety!

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever

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