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  • Rom
    Rom
    noun
    an individual member of the Romani people, or Roma, especially a man or boy.
  • ROM
    ROM
    noun
    computer memory in which program instructions, operating procedures, or other data are permanently stored, generally on electronic chips during manufacture, and that ordinarily cannot be changed by the user.
  • rom.
    rom.
    abbreviation
    roman (printing type).
  • Rom.
    Rom.
    abbreviation
    Roman.
Synonyms

Rom

1 American  
[rohm] / roʊm /

noun

plural

Roms,

plural

Rom

  1. an individual member of the Romani people, or Roma, especially a man or boy.

ROM 2 American  
[rom] / rɒm /

noun

  1. computer memory in which program instructions, operating procedures, or other data are permanently stored, generally on electronic chips during manufacture, and that ordinarily cannot be changed by the user.

rom. 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. roman (printing type).

Rom. 4 American  

abbreviation

  1. Roman.

  2. Romance. Also Rom

  3. Romania.

  4. Romanian. Also Rom

  5. Romanic. Also Rom

  6. Bible. Romans (New Testament).

Rom. 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. Roman

  2. Romance (languages)

  3. Bible Romans

  4. Romania(n)

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rom. 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. roman (type)

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ROM 3 British  
/ rɒm /

acronym

  1. read only memory: a storage device that holds data permanently and cannot in normal circumstances be altered by the programmer

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Rom 4 British  
/ rɒm /

noun

  1. a male Gypsy

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ROM Scientific  
/ rŏm /

  1. Short for read-only memory. Computer hardware that stores programs or data that cannot be added to, modified, or deleted. ROM does not require power to maintain its contents, and is often used to save instructions that enable the computer's operating system to communicate with other hardware.

ROM Cultural  

  1. Acronym for r ead o nly m emory, which refers to a memory system, such as a commercial CD, which can be read but which cannot be altered. (Compare RAM.)

Sensitive Note

See gypsy.

Etymology

Origin of Rom1

First recorded in 1835–45; from Romani: “man, married man”; compare Sanskrit ḍomba, ḍoma “a low-caste minstrel,” probably from a Dravidian language; compare Kannada ḍomba, ḍoma, Tamil dommara “caste of jugglers”

Origin of ROM2

r(ead)-o(nly) m(emory)

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