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Ram

Ram, ram, or RAM as a non-acronymic word

As a non-acronymic word Ram, ram, or RAM may refer to:

Animals

Bighorn Sheep, A North American mountain sheep species
Sheep, an uncastrated male of which is called a ram
Ram cichlid, a species of freshwater fish endemic to Colombia and Venezuela

Military

Battering ram
Ramming, a military tactic in which one vehicle runs into another
Naval ram, a weapon affixed to the bows of warships from ancient times to the late 19th century
Ram tank, a Canadian tank of World War II

In music

RAM (band), a mizik rasin band based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
rAm (band), a short-lived rock and roll band from Oregon, USA, active in 2002
Ram (band), a short-lived progressive rock band based in New York City, United States, active in 1972
Ram (album), a 1971 UK #1 album by Paul and Linda McCartney
Ram Jam (band), a rock band from the 1970s with the hit song "Black Betty"

Sports teams

RAM Racing, a Formula One racing team active between 1976 and 1985
Derby County Football Club, an English football club known as the Rams
St. Louis Rams, the National Football League team from St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Fordham Rams, the sports teams of Fordham University in New York City, New York, United States
Colorado State Rams, the sports teams of Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
University of Rhode Island Rams, the sports teams of the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, Rhode Island, United States
Virginia Commonwealth University Rams, the sports teams of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, United States
Shepherd University, the sports teams of Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States

People

Ram, a very common Hindu name for males, originating from Hindu God Shri Rama
Ram Bahadur Bomjon, a Nepalese teenager televised meditating for days without moving
Ram (actor), a south Indian Telugu actor
Ram (Bible)
Ramnaresh Sarwan, a West Indian cricket player
Andy Ram, an Israeli tennis player
Rama (disambiguation) for other people named Ram (spelled also as Rama)

In hydraulics

Hydraulic ram, a type of water-powered cyclic pump
Hydraulic rescue tools#Rams, used as tools to extract victims of a car collision from the vehicle

Others

Ramjet, a type of jet engine particularly suitable for supersonic speeds
Dodge Ram, a full-size pickup truck
Aries (astrology), symbolized as a ram
Aries (constellation), symbolized as a ram
Ram (company), a Japanese visual novel studio
Ram Mounts, a modular range of products to mount, hold and stabilise devices, and the trading name of the company which makes them
Ram (comics), a fictional Japanese superhero published by DC Comics
List of The Tribe characters#Ram, a fictional character from the television series The Tribe

RAM as an abbreviation

The abbreviation RAM may refer to: Random access memory, computer memory that can be read from and written to in arbitrary sequence in a very high speed
Random access machine, a theoretical computer model
.ram, a file extension for the RealAudio file format
Radar absorbent material, a material designed to prevent detection of a vehicle or structure by radar
Rassemblement pour l'action municipale, a municipal political party in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada
Real Action Marker (Paintball Marker), a brand marketed by Umarex and produced by Qian Wei Paintball
Rectangular approximation method, a method of approximating the integral of a function
Regiunea Autonomă Maghiară, the Hungarian Autonomous Province of Romania (1952–68)
Relative atomic mass, the mass of an atom at rest
Reliability, Availability and Maintainability, a subset of system quality attributes
Remote Area Medical, Volunteer corp of USA
Residents Action Movement, a left-wing coalition in the Auckland Region of New Zealand
Responsibility assignment matrix
RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile, a short-range surface-to-air missile
Riverside Art Museum in Riverside, California
Rock Australia Magazine, a musical journal–magazine published in Australia
Root apical meristem
Royal Academy of Music, in London, England
Royal Air Maroc, the national airline of Morocco
Royal Alberta Museum, in Alberta, Canada
York Rite#Royal Arch Masonry, in the York Rite the next order a Freemason can join after becoming a Master Freemason
Rechargeable Alkaline Manganese, a type of dry cell battery

Source: Wikipedia

Translation

The word "Ram" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Czech, Welsh, Dutch, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Simple English, Swedish.

Translation(s) in other languages: German: RAM, Greek: Κριός, Spanish: RAM, Esperanto: RAM, French: RAM, Galician: RAM (homónimos), Italian: RAM (disambigua), Japanese: RAM, Portuguese: RAM, Slovak: RAM, Slovenian: RAM (razločitev), Finnish: RAM, Chinese: RAM.


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