Ram

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Ram, ram, or RAM may refer to:

Animals

• A male sheep
• A male goat
• Ram cichlid, a freshwater tropical fish

Military

• A device or vehicle used for ramming (striking a target with great force)
• 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 naval surface-to-air missile

Music

• RAM (band), a mizik rasin band based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
• RAM (musician) (born 1974), Dutch trance music producer and DJ
• Raja Ram (musician) (born 1941), Australian-born musician and record label owner born Ronald Rothfield in 1941
• Ram (album), a 1971 album by Paul and Linda McCartney
• RAM Records, an English an independent record label specialising in drum and bass

People

• Ram (given name)
• Ram (surname)
• Ram (director) (born 1974), Indian Tamil film director born Ramsubramaniam in 1974
• Ram Dass (born 1931), American spiritual teacher and author born Richard Alpert in 1931
• Kavitark Ram Shriram (born 1950s), founding board member and one of the first investors in Google
• Rama Krishna Veerapaneni, entrepreneur from South India

Places

• Ram Range, a mountain range in the Canadian Rockies
• Ram River in Alberta, Canada
• Lake Ram, Golan Heights, Syria
• Ram, Serbia, a settlement in the municipality of Veliko Gradište

Science and technology

• 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

Transportation

• Ram Trucks, a United States-based brand of light pick-up trucks since 2009
  • Ram Pickup, produced by Ram Trucks
  • Dodge Ram (disambiguation), a common name for past truck vehicles from Dodge
• Royal Air Maroc, also known as RAM, the Moroccan national airline

Other uses

• Ram (company), a Japanese visual novel studio
• RAM Racing, a Formula One racing team active between 1976 and 1985
• Ram FM, the brand of a radio station in Derbyshire, England, from 1994 to 2010
• Aries (constellation), also known as the Ram
• Aries (astrology)
• Goat (zodiac), a sign of the Chinese zodiac also known as the Ram
• Ram languages, of Papua New Guinea
• Ram Fortress, fortress in Serbia

As an abbreviation or acronym

Organizations

• 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 health care organization
• Residents Action Movement, a left-wing coalition in the Auckland Region of New Zealand
• Royal Academy of Music, in London, England
• Royal Air Maroc, the national airline of Morocco
• Royal Arch Masonry, an organization within Freemasonry

Museums

• Riverside Art Museum in Riverside, California, USA
• Rockbund Art Museum, in Shanghai, China
• Royal Alberta Museum, in Alberta, Canada

Science and technology

• Radar-absorbent material, a material designed to prevent detection of a vehicle or structure by radar
• Random-access memory, computer memory
• 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

Other

• Rock Australia Magazine, an Australian music magazine (1975–1989)
• Root apical meristem
• RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile, a short-range surface-to-air missile

See also

• Rams (disambiguation)
• Ramjet, a type of jet engine particularly suitable for supersonic speeds