Rim may refer to: *

Rim (basketball) Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

, the hoop through which the ball must pass **

Breakaway rim A breakaway rim is a basketball rim that contains a hinge and a spring at the point where it attaches to the backboard so that it can bend downward when a player dunks a basketball, and then quickly snaps back into a horizontal position when the p ...

, a sprung basketball rim *

Rim (coin) The rim of a coin is the raised part of the coin that completely encircles the perimeter on both obverse and reverse sides. Not to be confused with the edge of the coin, which is also known as its "third side". This is the part which exceeds th ...

, the raised edge which surrounds the coin design * Rim (crater), extending above the local surface *

Rim (firearms) A rim is an external flange that is machined, cast, molded, stamped, or pressed around the bottom of a firearms cartridge. Thus, rimmed cartridges are sometimes called "flanged" cartridges. Almost all cartridges feature an extractor or headspacing ...

, a projection machined into the bottom of a firearms cartridge * ''Rim'' (novel), by Alexander Besher *

Rim (wheel) The rim is the "outer edge of a wheel, holding the tire". It makes up the outer circular design of the wheel on which the inside edge of the tire is mounted on vehicles such as automobiles. For example, on a bicycle wheel the rim is a large ho ...

, the outer part of a wheel on which the tire is mounted *Slang term for

analingus Anilingus (from the Latin ''anus'' + ''-lingus'', from ''lingere'', "to lick", variantly spelled "analingus") is the oral and anal sex act in which a person stimulates the anus of another by using the mouth, including lips, tongue, or teeth. I ...

*"Rim", a song by Brooke Candy featuring Violet Chachki and Aquaria from the album '' Sexorcism'' RIM may stand for: *Rapid Interim Measures proposed by the Review Body on Bid Challenges under the World Trade Organization's

Agreement on Government Procurement The Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) is a plurilateral agreement under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO) which regulates the procurement of goods and services by the public authorities of the parties to the agreement, ba ...

Reaction injection molding Reaction injection molding (RIM) is similar to injection molding except thermosetting polymers are used, which requires a curing reaction to occur within the mold. Common items made via RIM include automotive bumpers, air spoilers, and fen ...

, a type of processing for network polymers *

Recording Industry Association of Malaysia ''Persatuan Industri Rakaman Malaysia'' (RIM) (English: Recording Industry Association of Malaysia) is a Malaysian non-profit music organisation, founded on 12 December 1978, as the Malaysian Association of Phonograph Producers (MAPP). In the ...

* Red Island Minerals, Australia coal company *

Reference Information Model Health Level Seven or HL7 refers to a set of international standards for transfer of clinical and administrative data between software applications used by various healthcare providers. These standards focus on the application layer, which is "la ...

, in Health Level Standards 7 * Remote Infrastructure Management of computer systems *Research in Motion, a Canadian company later named

BlackBerry Limited BlackBerry Limited is a Canadian software company specializing in cybersecurity. Founded in 1984, it was originally known as Research In Motion (RIM). As RIM, it developed the BlackBerry brand of interactive pagers, smartphones, and tablets ...

Revolutionary Internationalist Movement The Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM) was an international communist organization founded in France in March 1984 by 17 various Maoist organisations around the world. It sought to "struggle for the formation of a Communist Internation ...

, an international Maoist organization *

Royal Indian Marine Royal may refer to: People * Royal (name), a list of people with either the surname or given name * A member of a royal family Places United States * Royal, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Royal, Illinois, a village * Royal, Iowa, a cit ...

, name of the British Indian navy 1912–1928 *The US military designation for a ship-launched, intercept, guided missile; examples include **

RIM-66 Standard The RIM-66 Standard MR (SM-1MR/SM-2MR) is a medium-range surface-to-air missile (SAM), with a secondary role as an anti-ship missile, originally developed for the United States Navy (USN). A member of the Standard Missile family of weapons, the ...

RIM-7 Sea Sparrow RIM-7 Sea Sparrow is a U.S. ship-borne short-range anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapon system, primarily intended for defense against anti-ship missiles. The system was developed in the early 1960s from the AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missile as a ...

Russian Imperial Movement The Russian Imperial Movement (RIM; russian: Русское Имперское Движениe, translit=Russkoe imperskoe dvizhenie, RID)Marlene Laruelle, ''Russian Nationalism: Imaginaries, Doctrines, and Political Battlefields'' (Routledge, 2 ...

, Russian neo-Nazi paramilitary organization

Places

Rim, Črnomelj Rim () is a small village in the Municipality of Črnomelj in southeastern Slovenia. Until 2007, the area was part of the settlement of Jankoviči. The village is part of the traditional region of White Carniola and is included in the Southeast Sl ...

, Slovenia *

Rim, Nepal Rim, Nepal is a village development committee in Salyan District in the Rapti Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of ...

, Salyan District, Rapti Zone *

Rim, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County Rim is a village in Croatia , image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg , image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg , anthem = "Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland") , image_map = , map_c ...

, a village near Vrbovsko, Croatia *

Rim (state constituency) Rim is a state constituency in Malacca, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Melaka State Legislative Assembly The Malacca State Legislative Assembly ( ms, Dewan Undangan Negeri Melaka) is the unicameral Dewan Undangan Negeri, legislatu ...

, an election constituency in the Malacca legislature in Malaysia

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