Ram

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

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

Animals

• Sheep, an uncastrated male of which is called a ram
• Ram cichlid, a species of freshwater fish endemic to Colombia and Venezuela

Military uses

• Battering ram, a long siege weapon designed to break down fortifications by the application of force
• Ramming, a primarily-naval military tactic in which one vehicle runs into another
• Naval ram, a weapon affixed to the bow of ironclad battleships in the late 1800s
• Ram tank, a Canadian tank of the Second World War

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 McCartney

Sports teams

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

People

• Rama, the god known in Hindi as Ram
• A common Hindu Indian man's forename
• Ramnaresh "Ram" Sarwan, a West Indian cricket player
• Andy Ram, an Israeli tennis player
• Ram, a fictional character from the science fiction television program The Tribe

In computing

• RAM, Random Access Memory, refers to a computer's memory storage
• .ram, a file extension for the RealAudio file format

In hydraulics

• Hydraulic ram, a type of water-powered cyclic pump
  • 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, a town in Serbia
• Ram (company), a Japanse visual novel studio

RAM as an abbreviation

The abbreviation RAM may refer to:

• Royal Air Maroc, the national airline of Morocco
• Royal Arch Masonry, in the York Rite the next order a Freemason can join after becoming a Master Freemason.
• Rectangular approximation method, a method of approximating the integral of a function
• Relative atomic mass, the mass of an atom at rest
• Radar absorbent material, a material designed to prevent detection of a vehicle or structure by radar
• Random access memory, computer memory that can be read from and written to in arbitrary sequence
• Random access machine, a theoretical computer model
• Royal Alberta Museum, in Alberta, Canada
• Royal Academy of Music, in London, England
• Residents Action Movement, a left-wing coalition in the Auckland Region of New Zealand
• RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile, a short-range surface-to-air missile