rom.
abbreviation
• roman (used as an instruction for a typesetter).
Rom
noun
• a member of the Roma people; a Romani person.
Origin:
mid 19th century: Romani, ‘man, husband’, probably from Sanskrit ḍomba ‘wandering musician’, but also influenced by Byzantine Greek Rōmaios ‘Roman, citizen of Byzantine empire’, since the Roma formed into a distinct ethnic group within the Byzantine Empire.
ROM
abbreviation
• read-only memory.
Rom.
abbreviation
• Epistle to the Romans (in biblical references).
read-only memory
noun
• memory read at high speed but not capable of being changed by program instructions.
