Rom, or ROM may refer to:

Biomechanics and medicine

Risk of mortality The risk of mortality (ROM) provides a medical classification to estimate the likelihood of inhospital death for a patient. The ROM classes are minor, moderate, major, and extreme. The ROM class is used for the evaluation of patient mortality. Se ...

, a medical classification to estimate the likelihood of death for a patient * Rupture of membranes, a term used during pregnancy to describe a rupture of the amniotic sac *

Range of motion Range of motion (or ROM), is the linear or angular distance that a moving object may normally travel while properly attached to another. It is also called range of travel (or ROT), particularly when talking about mechanical devices and in mechanic ...

, e.g. of joints in physiotherapy

Computers and mathematics

* Read-only memory, a type of storage media that is used in computers and other electronic devices **

ROM cartridge A ROM cartridge, usually referred to in context simply as a cartridge, cart, or card, is a replaceable part designed to be connected to a consumer electronics device such as a home computer, video game console or, to a lesser extent, electroni ...

, a portable form of read-only memory ** ROM image, a computer file which contains a copy of the data from a read-only memory chip *

Random oracle In cryptography, a random oracle is an oracle (a theoretical black box) that responds to every ''unique query'' with a (truly) random response chosen uniformly from its output domain. If a query is repeated, it responds the same way every time th ...

model, a mathematical abstraction used in cryptographic proofs * ROM (MUD), a popular MUD codebase * Request of Maintainer (see Software maintainer)

Engineering

, the distance that a movable object may normally travel while properly attached to another object * RFID on metal, refers to radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags which perform a specific function when attached to metal objects * Rough order of magnitude, a type of

cost estimation A cost estimate is the approximation of the cost of a program, project, or operation. The cost estimate is the product of the cost estimating process. The cost estimate has a single total value and may have identifiable component values. A problem ...

Fiction and entertainment

* Ethan Rom, one of the Others in the TV series ''Lost'' * Rom (comics), a Marvel Comics superhero based on the Parker Brothers toy of the same name * Rom (''Star Trek''), a Ferengi character in ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' * Rom, a fictional character in ''Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2'' * '' Runes of Magic'', a popular MMORPG * Rom, a boss in the videogame '' Bloodborne'' *

Read-Only Memory (publisher) Read-Only Memory is a British publisher of art books on topics of video game history and culture. Following a resurgence of interest in 1980s and '90s British video game development, the company crowdfunded and produced four art books: an oral ...

, a British publisher of art books related to the Britsoft era of video game development * ''Rom'' (album)

Places and structures

* River Rom, England * Rom (river), Switzerland and Italy *

Rom, Afghanistan Rom, Afghanistan is a village in Sar-e Pol Province in northern Afghanistan. See also * Sar-e Pol Province Sar-e Pol, also spelled Sari Pul (Dari/Pashto: ), is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the north of the count ...

, a village in Sar-e Pol province, Afghanistan *

Rom, Deux-Sèvres Rom is a commune situated in the Deux-Sèvres department, in western France.Commune de Rom ( ...

, a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France *

Rom (Mecklenburg) Rom is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Geography and transport The municipality is located 7 km east of Parchim and seven kilometers west of Lübz. The Bundesstraße 191 runs through ...

, a community in the district of Parchim, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany * Rom, a district of

Morsbach Morsbach is a municipality in Oberbergischer Kreis, a district in North Rhine-Westphalia near the border of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. In 2015, Morsbach's population was 10,600. The central village, also named Morsbach, has a population of ...

in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany *

Rom, Iran Rum ( fa, روم, also Romanized as Rūm and Rom) is a village in Sedeh Rural District, Sedeh District, Qaen County, South Khorasan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a count ...

, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran *

Royal Ontario Museum The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the largest museums in North America and the largest in Canada. It attracts more than one million visitors every year ...

, a museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada * The Rom, skatepark in Hornchurch, East London, England * Romania, UNDP code and former IOC code

Society

* Rom (plural Roma), one of the ethnic designations used by the Romani people ** rom, Romani language, language code ISO 639 alpha-2 * Rom or ROM, system of Indigenous Australian customary law ** ROM ceremony, a Yolngu ceremonial practice

Other uses

Return on margin In finance, margin is the collateral that a holder of a financial instrument has to deposit with a counterparty (most often their broker or an exchange) to cover some or all of the credit risk the holder poses for the counterparty. This risk ca ...

, a judge of performance based on the net gain or net loss compared to the perceived risk * Refuel On the Move, a DoD logistic action *

Epistle to the Romans The Epistle to the Romans is the sixth book in the New Testament, and the longest of the thirteen Pauline epistles. Biblical scholars agree that it was composed by Paul the Apostle to explain that salvation is offered through the gospel of J ...

, a book of the Bible commonly abbreviated ''Rom.'' {{disambiguation, geo