Ram
Appearance
Ram, ram, or RAM may refer to:
When used as a word (non-acronyms)
Animals
- Ram, an uncastrated male Sheep
- Ram cichlid, a species of freshwater fish endemic to Colombia and Venezuela
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
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
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
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)
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
- 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 Tribe television series
- Richard Allen Mob, an underworld organization operating out of the Richard Allen (bishop) Homes public housing site in Philadelphia
When used as an abbreviation (acronyms)
Organizations
- Rassemblement pour l'action municipale, a municipal political party in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada
- 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
- 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
- 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
Other
- Regiunea Autonomă Maghiară, the Hungarian Autonomous Province of Romania (1952–68)
- Real Action Marker, a brand of Paintball markers marketed by Umarex and produced by Qian Wei Paintball
- Reliability, Availability and Maintainability, a subset of system quality attributes
- Responsibility assignment matrix
- RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile, a short-range surface-to-air missile
- Rock Australia Magazine, a musical journal–magazine published in Australia
- Root apical meristem
- Royal Arch Masonry, in the York Rite the next order a Freemason can join after becoming a Master Freemason