Rom, or ROM may refer to:
Biomechanics and medicine
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Risk of mortality
The risk of mortality (ROM) provides a medical classification to estimate the likelihood of in-hospital death for a patient. The ROM classes are minor, moderate, major, and extreme. The ROM class is used for the evaluation of patient Death, mortali ...
, a medical classification to estimate the likelihood of death for a patient
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Rupture of membranes, a term used during pregnancy to describe a rupture of the amniotic sac
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Range of motion, e.g. of joints in physiotherapy
Computers and mathematics
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Android ROM, a file containing executable instructions of an Android OS
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Read-only memory
Read-only memory (ROM) is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers and other electronic devices. Data stored in ROM cannot be electronically modified after the manufacture of the memory device. Read-only memory is useful for storing sof ...
, a type of storage media that is used in computers and other electronic devices
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ROM cartridge
A ROM cartridge, usually referred to in context simply as a cartridge, cart, cassette, or card, is a replaceable part designed to be connected to a consumer electronics device such as a home computer, video game console or, to a lesser extent, ...
, a portable form of read-only memory
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ROM image, a computer file which contains a copy of the data from a read-only memory chip
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ROM (MUD), a popular MUD codebase
* Request Of
Maintainer, a request by the maintainer of a software package
Engineering
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Range of motion, the distance that a movable object may normally travel while properly attached to another object
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RFID on metal, radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags which perform a specific function when attached to metal objects
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Rough order of magnitude, a type of cost estimation
Fiction and entertainment
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Ethan Rom, one of the Others in the TV series ''Lost''
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Rom (comics), a Marvel Comics superhero based on the Parker Brothers toy of the same name
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Rom (''Star Trek''), a Ferengi character in ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''
* Rom, a
fictional character in ''Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2''
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Runes of Magic'', a popular MMORPG
* Rom, a boss in the videogame ''
Bloodborne''
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Read-Only Memory (publisher)
Read-Only Memory is a British publisher of art books on topics of video game history and culture. Following a resurgence of interest in 1980s and '90s British video game development, the company crowdfunded and produced four art books: an ...
, a British publisher of art books related to the Britsoft era of video game development
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''Rom'' (album)
Places and structures
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River Rom, England
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Rom (river), Switzerland and Italy
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Rom, Afghanistan
Rom, Afghanistan is a village in Sar-e Pol Province in northern Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by P ...
, a village in Sar-e Pol province, Afghanistan
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, a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France
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Rom (Mecklenburg)
Rom is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the n ...
, a community in the district of Parchim, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
* Rom, a district of
Morsbach
Morsbach is a municipality in Oberbergischer Kreis, a district in North Rhine-Westphalia near the border of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. In 2015, Morsbach's population was 10,600. The central village, also named Morsbach, has a population of ...
in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Rom, Iran
Rum () is a village in Sedeh Rural District, Sedeh District, Qaen County, South Khorasan province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq t ...
, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran
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Royal Ontario Museum
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the largest museums in North America and the largest in Canada. It attracts more than one million visitors every year ...
, a museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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The Rom
The Rom is a Grade II listed skatepark in Hornchurch, East London, England. Built in 1978 and designed by Adrian Rolt of G-Force, it is the most completely preserved purpose-built skatepark in England. It is the first skatepark in Europe to ac ...
, skatepark in Hornchurch, East London, England
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Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...
, UNDP code and former IOC code
Society
* Rom (plural Roma), one of the ethnic designations used by the
Romani people
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, group = Romani people
, image =
, image_caption =
, flag = Roma flag.svg
, flag_caption = Romani flag created in 1933 and accepted at the 1971 World Romani Congress
, po ...
** rom,
Romani language
Romani ( ; also Romanes , Romany, Roma; ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani people. The largest of these are Vlax Romani language, Vlax Romani (about 500,000 speakers), Balkan Romani (600,000), and Sinte Roma ...
, language code ISO 639 alpha-2
* Rom or ROM, system of
Indigenous Australian customary law
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ROM ceremony, a Yolngu ceremonial practice
Other uses
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Return on margin, a judge of performance based on the net gain or net loss compared to the perceived risk
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Refuel On the Move, a DoD logistic action
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Epistle to the Romans, a book of the Bible commonly abbreviated ''Rom.''
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