RAM

See also: ram, Ram, rám, râm, Râm, and rắm

English

1 GB of DDR RAM (memory, sense 1)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹæm/

  • Audio (US)

    (file)

• Rhymes: -æm
• Homophone: ram

Noun

RAM (plural RAMs)

1. (electronics, computing) Acronym of random-access memory.

   Hyponyms: NVRAM, SRAM, DRAM, SDRAM, FRAM, MRAM

   Coordinate terms: ROM, flash memory, bubble memory, core memory, WORM

2. (computer science) Acronym of random-access machine.

   Coordinate term: PRAM

3. (project management) Acronym of responsibility assignment matrix.
4. (risk management) Acronym of reliability availability maintainability.
5. (military) Acronym of radar-absorbent material, a material which absorbs radar.

Translations

random access memory — See also translations at random access memory

• Armenian: ՕՀՍ (ŌHS)
• Azerbaijani: ƏYQ
• Bengali: র‌্যান্ডম অ্যাকসেস মেমরি (rô‌janḍôm ôjakśeś memri), র‌্যাম (rô‌jam)
• Chinese: 内存 (zh), 記憶體 (zh)
• French: RAM (fr) f, mémoire RAM f
• Galician: RAM f, memoria RAM f
• German: RAM (de) m or n
• Greek: ΜΤΠ f (MTP) (μνήμη τυχαίας προσπέλασης (el) f (mními tychaías prospélasis))

• Italian: memoria (it) f
• Japanese: RAM (ramu)
• Polish: RAM (pl) m
• Portuguese: memória RAM f
• Russian: ОЗУ (ru) (OZU)
• Spanish: RAM (es) f, memoria RAM f
• Vietnamese: bộ nhớ

Proper noun

RAM

1. Initialism of Royal Academy of Music.
2. Initialism of Rise Above Movement.

Further reading

• random-access memory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• random-access machine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -mar-, AMR, ARM, Arm, Arm., MAR, MRA, Mar, Mar., RMA, arm, mar, mar-

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German

Noun

RAM n or m (genitive RAMs or RAM, plural RAMs)

1. (computing) RAM

   Synonym: Arbeitsspeicher

Declension

Declension of RAM

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	RAM	die	RAMs
genitive	eines	des	RAMs, RAM	der	RAMs
dative	einem	dem	RAM	den	RAMs
accusative	ein	das	RAM	die	RAMs

Further reading

• “RAM” in Duden online

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɒm]
• Rhymes: -ɒm

Noun

RAM (plural RAM-ok)

1. (electronics, computing) RAM (random access memory)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	RAM	RAM-ok
accusative	RAM-ot	RAM-okat
dative	RAM-nak	RAM-oknak
instrumental	RAM-mal	RAM-okkal
causal-final	RAM-ért	RAM-okért
translative	RAM-má	RAM-okká
terminative	RAM-ig	RAM-okig
essive-formal	RAM-ként	RAM-okként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	RAM-ban	RAM-okban
superessive	RAM-on	RAM-okon
adessive	RAM-nál	RAM-oknál
illative	RAM-ba	RAM-okba
sublative	RAM-ra	RAM-okra
allative	RAM-hoz	RAM-okhoz
elative	RAM-ból	RAM-okból
delative	RAM-ról	RAM-okról
ablative	RAM-tól	RAM-októl
non-attributive possessive - singular	RAM-é	RAM-oké
non-attributive possessive - plural	RAM-éi	RAM-okéi

Possessive forms of RAM
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	RAM-om	RAM-jaim
2nd person sing.	RAM-od	RAM-jaid
3rd person sing.	RAM-ja	RAM-jai
1st person plural	RAM-unk	RAM-jaink
2nd person plural	RAM-otok	RAM-jaitok
3rd person plural	RAM-juk	RAM-jaik

Derived terms

• RAM-os

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Japanese

Alternative forms

• ランダムアクセスメモリ (randamu akusesu memori)
• ランダムアクセスメモリー (randamu akusesu memorī)

Etymology

Borrowed from English RAM.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ラ​ム [ráꜜmù] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɾa̠mɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

RAM(ラム) • (ramu) 

1. (electronics, computing) RAM

See also

• ROM(ロム) (romu)