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rom

[rohm]

Origin

noun

a Gypsy man or boy.

Origin:
1835–45; < Romany: a married man; compare Sanskrit ḍomba, ḍoma a low-caste minstrel

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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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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.

Compare PROM, RAM.

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

Can be confused: RAM, ROM.

Romans (New Testament).

COLLAPSE

Also, Rom (for defs. 2, 5).

roman (printing type).

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Rom (rɒm)

—n , pl Roma
	a male Gypsy

[Romany]

ROM (rɒm)

—*n acronym for*
	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

"male gypsy," 1841, see Romany.

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ROM (rŏm) Pronunciation Key
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.

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ROM definition

Acronym for read only memory, which refers to a memory system, such as a commercial CD, which can be read but which cannot be altered. (Compare RAM.)