ROM

ROM

1. (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Romania from 1974 to 2002.

   Synonyms: RO (alpha-2 1974–present), ROU (2002–present)

• (electronics, computing, video games): IPA^(key): /ɹɒm/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

  • (father-bother merger) IPA^(key): /ɹɑm/
  • Rhymes: -ɒm

ROM

1. (sports) Abbreviation of Romania.

ROM (countable and uncountable, plural ROMs)

1. (electronics, computing) Acronym of read-only memory.
2. (video games) A software image of read-only memory (as of a game cartridge) used in emulation.
3. (computing, by extension) The internal storage, often a solid-state drive, on a mobile device or computer.
4. (medicine) Initialism of range of motion.
5. (medicine) Acronym of rupture of membranes.
6. (finance) Initialism of return on margin.
7. (estimating and purchasing) Initialism of rough order of magnitude: An informal cost or price estimate provided for planning and budgeting purposes only, typically expected to be only 75% accurate.
8. (advertising) Initialism of run of month.

   Coordinate terms: ROP, ROW, ROY

• nonvolatile (memory)

• MROM
• PROM

(read-only memory):

• EEPROM
• EPROM
• LV-ROM
• PROM
• ROMable
• romset

(read-only memory):

• RAM
• flash memory
• write-only memory, WOM

(read-only memory):

• WORM

• MOR, MRO, Mor, Mor., O/RM, OMR, ORM, RMO

• リードオンリーメモリ (rīdo-onrī memori)
• リードオンリーメモリー (rīdo-onrī memorī)

Borrowed from English ROM.

• (Tokyo) ロム [róꜜmù] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɾo̞mɯ̟]

ROM(ロム) • (romu) 

1. (computing) ROM

• RAM(ラム) (ramu)

Acronym of read-only member.

• (Tokyo) ロム [róꜜmù] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɾo̞mɯ̟]

ROM(ロム) • (romu) 

1. (Internet slang) lurker

• ROM(ロム)る (romuru)

ROM f (plural ROMs)

1. (electronics, video games) ROM