random-access memory
noun
RAM.
Jump To:
random-access memory
Americannoun
Computers.
random access memory
British
noun
random-access memory
Scientific
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Prices of dynamic random-access memory, or DRAM, have skyrocketed owing to high demand from artificial-intelligence companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
He noted that average selling prices for dynamic random-access memory have been up more than 60% sequentially in recent quarters.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 28, 2026
The team connected the layers using vertical metal interconnects and successfully demonstrated three-dimensional logic circuits as well as static random-access memory cells.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 2026
UBS analyst Tim Arcuri estimates that such contracts will cover as much as 30% of shipments of total dynamic random-access memory, or DRAM, next year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
The PC is equipped with a central processing unit, graphics card, random-access memory and high-capacity storage — the very same equipment that multitrillion-dollar tech companies are now hoovering up to power their artificial-intelligence ambitions.
From MarketWatch ● May 23, 2026
Moreover, those tight market conditions apply to both high-end memory chips and the more traditional dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, chips.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026
Ram - or random access memory - is used to store code while you use a device.
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2026
DRAM, or dynamic random access memory, allows a processor to store and rapidly access the data and program instructions it is actively using.
From Barron's ● Dec. 10, 2025
This would involve using the magnetic moment of electrons instead of their charge in dynamic random access memory.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 15, 2024
Idaho-based Micron, valued at about $100 billion, owns a 20% to 25% share of the dynamic random access memory industry, a computer technology the Chinese didn’t possess until very recently, Mr. Sessions said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2018
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
