BOM

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bom"

Translingual

Symbol

BOM

1. (international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, which serves Mumbai, India.

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /bɑm/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophones: bomb; balm (some speakers with the father-bother merger)
• Rhymes: -ɒm

Noun

BOM (plural BOMs)

1. Acronym of bill of materials.
2. (computing) Acronym of byte order mark.
3. (journalism) Acronym of business-office must (“a story that must be published at the behest of the publication's business office”).
4. (Mormonism) Initialism of Book of Mormon.

Proper noun

BOM

1. (Australia) Initialism of Bureau of Meteorology.

   Synonym: BoM

Anagrams

• BMO, MBO, MOB, OMB, mob