Definition of ram
(Entry 1 of 3)
1a : a male sheep
2a : battering ram
b : a warship with a heavy beak at the prow for piercing an enemy ship
3 : any of various guided pieces for exerting pressure or for driving or forcing something by impact: such as
a : the plunger of a hydrostatic press or force pump
b : the weight that strikes the blow in a pile driver
ram
verbrammed; ramming
Definition of ram (Entry 2 of 3)
1 : to force in by or as if by driving
3 : to force passage or acceptance of
ram home an idea
4 : to strike against violently
RAM
noun (2)Definition of RAM (Entry 3 of 3)
: a computer memory on which data can be both read and written and on which the location of data does not affect the speed of its retrieval especially : RAM that acts as the main storage available to the user for programs and data
— called also random-access memory
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The first known use of ram was before the 12th century
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