Ram

Ram, ram, or RAM may refer to:

When used as a word (Not as an initialism)

Animals

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

Military

• Battering rama middle ages siege weapon, used to force the catles gates
• Ramming, a military tactic in which one vehicle runs into another
• Naval ram, a weapon affixed to the bows of some warships until the late 19th century
• Ram tank, a Canadian tank of World War II
• Ram (rocket), an American anti-tank weapon of the Korean War
• RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile, a short-range surface-to-air missile

Music

• RAM (band), a mizik rasin band based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
• 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 Records, an English drum and bass record label
• Ram Trilogy, a drum and bass producer and DJ trio, consisting of Andy C, Shimon and Ant Miles

Sports teams

• RAM Racing, a Formula One racing team active between 1976 and 1985
• Derby County F.C., 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
• Framingham State University, the sports teams of Framingham State University in Framingham, Massachusetts
• 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 common Hindu name for males, originating from Hindu Avatar (incarnation of God) Rama
• Ram Bahadur Bomjon, Nepalese teenager televised meditating for days without moving
• Ram (actor), south Indian Telugu actor
• Ram (Biblical figure)
• Ram Karmi (born 1931), Israeli architect
• Ram Narayan, Indian sarangi player
• Ramnaresh Sarwan, West Indian cricketer
• Andy Ram (born 1980), Israeli tennis player
• Ram (director), director of films such as Kattradhu Thamizh and Thanga Meengal
• Rama (disambiguation) for other people named Ram (spelled also as Rama)
• Ram Pothineni, Indian film actor
• Ram Charan Teja, Indian film actor

Hydraulics

• Hydraulic ram, a type of water-powered cyclic pump
  • ram, a hydraulic rescue tool used to extract victims of a car collision from the vehicle..

Other

• Ram, Serbia, a settlement in the municipality of Veliko Gradište, in the Braničevo District of Serbia.
• Ram Fortress, fortress in Serbia
• Ramjet, a type of jet engine particularly suitable for supersonic speeds
• Ram Trucks, a United States-based brand of light pick-up trucks since 2009, formerly known as the Dodge Truck Division of Chrysler Corp.
• 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 stabilize 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 Tribe television series
• Richard Allen Mob, an underworld organization operating out of the Richard Allen Homes public housing site in Philadelphia

When used as an abbreviation or acronym

Organizations

• Royal Arch Masonry, the first Masonic body a Master Mason can join as a part of the York Rite.
• Rassemblement pour l'action municipale, a municipal political party in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada
• Reform the Armed Forces Movement, a rightist military faction of the Armed Forces of the Philippines from the 1980s to the 1990s.
• Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps, a non-profit, volunteer United States healthcare organization.
• Residents Action Movement, a left-wing coalition in the Auckland Region of New Zealand
• Riverside Art Museum in Riverside, California
• Royal Academy of Music, in London, England
• Royal Air Maroc, the national airline of Morocco
• Royal Alberta Museum, in Alberta, Canada
• Research and Analysis of Media

Science and technology

• Radar-absorbent material, a material designed to prevent detection of a vehicle or structure by radar
• Radioactive Material
• Random-access memory, computer memory that can be read from and written to in arbitrary sequence in a very high speed for computer and laptop
• Random access machine, a theoretical computer model
• .ram, a file extension for the RealAudio file format
• Rechargeable Alkaline Manganese, a type of dry cell battery
• Rectangular approximation method, a method of approximating the integral of a function
• Relative atomic mass, the mass of an atom at rest
• Ripple Attenuation Module, used in Switched-mode power supply circuits

Other

• Regiunea Autonomă Maghiară, the Hungarian Autonomous Province of Romania (1952–68)
• Reliability, Availability and Maintainability, a subset of system quality attributes
• Responsibility assignment matrix
• Reverse Annuity Mortgage
• Root apical meristem