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• random-access memory
  random-access memory

  noun

  RAM.
• random access memory
  random access memory

  noun

  See RAM 1

random-access memory

American  

noun

Computers.

1. RAM.

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random access memory British  

noun

1. See RAM 1

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random-access memory Scientific  

1. See RAM

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Example Sentences

Morgan Stanley’s Lee Simpson downgraded the stock earlier this month, saying that a major shortage of dynamic random-access memory chips could hurt the company’s royalty business.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026

Analyst Melissa Weathers said that Applied Materials looks primed to benefit from recent chip-sector strength and an uptick in demand for its dynamic random-access memory chips — a major revenue segment for the company.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

In the past three demand cycles dating back to the 1990s, Micron stock has peaked two to four months before dynamic random-access memory, or DRAM, prices.

From Barron's • Mar. 9, 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

Demand for such equipment is being driven by the need for leading-edge foundry and logic chips, and for dynamic random-access memory, he wrote in a Thursday report.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 14, 2026