Rim

Rim may refer to:

• Rim (basketball), part of equipment for basketball
  • Breakaway rim, a specialized rim capable of sustaining forceful dunks
• Rim (coin), the sharp circular (or otherwise shaped) edge which surrounds the coin design
• Rim (craters), the part of a crater that extends above the height of the local surface
• Rim (firearms), a projection machined into the bottom of a firearms cartridge
• Rim (novel), by Alexander Besher
• Rim (wheel), the outer part of a wheel on which the tire is mounted

• Slang term for analingus

RIM may stand for:

• Reaction injection molding, a type of processing for network polymers
• Recording Industry Association of Malaysia
• Red Island Minerals, Western Australia-based coal development company
• Reference Information Model, a specification created by HL7
• Remote Infrastructure Management, a 2nd/3rd line computer support team
• Remote Integrated Multiplexer, a term for digital loop carrier in Australia
• Research in Motion, Canadian company later named BlackBerry Limited
• Revolutionary Internationalist Movement, an international Maoist organization
• Royal Indian Marine, the navy of British India 1892-1934

• The US military designation for a ship-launched, intercept, guided missile; examples include
  • RIM-66 Standard
  • RIM-7 Sea Sparrow

Places

• Rim, Črnomelj, Slovenia
• Rim, Nepal, Salyan District, Rapti Zone
• Rim, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, a village near Vrbovsko, Croatia

See also

• RIMS (disambiguation)