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Contents 1 Ram, ram, or RAM as a non-acronymic word 1.1 Animals 1.2 Military 1.3 In music 1.4 Sports teams 1.5 People 1.6 In hydraulics 1.7 Others 2 RAM as an abbreviation

[edit] Ram, ram, or RAM as a non-acronymic word

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

[edit] Animals

• Ram, an uncastrated male Bighorn sheep
• Ram, an uncastrated male Sheep
• Ram cichlid, a species of freshwater fish endemic to Colombia and Venezuela

[edit] 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

[edit] 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"
• RAM Squad, hip-hop rap group from Philadelphia.

[edit] 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

[edit] People

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

[edit] 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

[edit] Others

• Ramjet, a type of jet engine particularly suitable for supersonic speeds
• Ram Trucks, a United-Stated based company manufacturing light pick-up trucks since 2009.
• Dodge Ram, a full-size pickup truck of the earlier Dodge brand that is now part of Ram Trucks.
• 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
• Ram, a fictional character from the television series The Tribe
• Richard Allen Mob, an underworld organization operating out of the Richard Allen Homes public housing site in Philadelphia.

[edit] 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

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