RM
1 Americanabbreviation
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rms
plural
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ream.
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room.
abbreviation
abbreviation
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Royal Mail
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Royal Marines
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(in Canada) Rural Municipality
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Madagascar (international car registration)
abbreviation
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ream
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room
Etymology
Origin of RM
(sense 4) From R(epublic of) M(adagascar)
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The seven members - RM, Jimin, V, Suga, Jungkook, Jin and J-Hope - had all released solo material, to varying degrees of success.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
"Watch out!" said the band's leader RM, who recently sustained an ankle injury during rehearsals.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
A few months before, RM apologised profusely after his own honest livestream about the anxiety of reuniting and returning to the stage.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
RM, the member who speaks the most fluent English, appears frustrated as he’s tasked with writing many of these lyrics, and Nguyen captures this struggle as well.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026
Of the naval brigade, Lieutenant Hay, RN, was wounded in the hand, and Lieutenant Stirling, RM, severely in the leg.
From Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign by William Henry Giles Kingston
Me with my Puritan conscience and big bump of order, and my r.m. calmly embroidering this Sabbath afternoon!
From The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware by Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry
She would cut out the moth-balls, even at the expense of having her clothes ruined, if the r.m. would swear off on musk and the like.
From The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware by Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry
So she filled all the drawers and wardrobes with those nasty camphor moth-balls, which the r.m. couldn't endure, and when she protested, Margaret offered a compromise.
From The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware by Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry
“I wanted a little bit lower trajectory, and especially with these courses being really fi rm, less loft was better to get the ball running,” she says.
From Golf Digest ● Jan. 8, 2020
From the Denver Post: "New Ig Iv rm, frpl, 2 bdrm, Ig kt, exp attic cel gar."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Among them is Rick Moonen, former chef of New York City's Oceana, who recently opened a new seafood restaurant called rm.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"Yes, I can see there may be a problem here, but I'll never type rm -r / while in root mode."
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele
Notice that to uncompress, one uses gunzip, not gzip. $ rm mysamplefile Use this command to remove the file, since it was just to practice with.
From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by John Goerzen
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