"read-only memory" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: read-only memories [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} read-only memory (countable and uncountable, plural read-only memories)
  1. (computing) A computer memory chip that stores values but does not allow updates, in which the values are nonvolatile in that they are retained even when the computer is unpowered. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Computing Synonyms: ROM Hypernyms: nonvolatile (english: memory) Hyponyms: mask read-only memory, masked read-only memory (alt: MROM), programmable read-only memory (alt: PROM) Related terms: random access memory, RAM, flash memory Translations (memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates): միայն կարդալու հիշողություն (miayn kardalu hišoġutʿyun) (Armenian), daimi yaddaş qurğusu (Azerbaijani), 唯讀記憶體 (Chinese Cantonese), 唯读记忆体 (wai⁴ duk⁶ gei³ jik¹ tai²) (Chinese Cantonese), 只讀內存 (Chinese Mandarin), 只读内存 (zhǐ dú nèicún) [Mainland-China] (Chinese Mandarin), 只讀存儲器 (Chinese Mandarin), 只读存储器 (zhǐdú cúnchǔqì, zhǐdú cúnchúqì) [Mainland-China] (Chinese Mandarin), 唯讀記憶體 (Chinese Mandarin), 唯读记忆体 (wéi dú jìyì tǐ) [Taiwan] (Chinese Mandarin), 唯讀儲存器 (Chinese Mandarin), 唯读储存器 (wéidú chǔcúnqì, chúcúnqì) [Taiwan] (Chinese Mandarin), rom [common-gender] (Danish), nurlegebla memoro (Esperanto), lukumuisti (Finnish), mémoire morte [feminine] (French), mémoire fixe [feminine] (French), mémoire ROM [feminine] (French), mémoire à lecture seule [feminine] (French), memorie di sole leture [feminine] (Friulian), memoria de só lectura [feminine] (Galician), memoria ROM [feminine] (Galician), Festwertspeicher [masculine] (German), Nur-Lese-Speicher [masculine] (German), μνήμη μόνο ανάγνωσης (mními móno anágnosis) [feminine] (Greek), lesminni [neuter] (Icelandic), memori hanya baca (Indonesian), cuimhne inléite amháin [feminine] (Irish), memoria a sola lettura [feminine] (Italian), memoria ROM [feminine] (Italian), 読み出し専用メモリ (yomidashi sen'yō memori) (Japanese), ROM (romu) (alt: ロム) (Japanese), тұрақты жадтау құрылғысы (tūraqty jadtau qūrylğysy) (Kazakh), ТЖҚ (TJQ) (Kazakh), lasāmatmiņa [feminine] (Latvian), меморија само за читање (memorija samo za čitanje) [feminine] (Macedonian), ingatan baca sahaja (Malay), тогтмол санах ой (togtmol sanax oj) (Mongolian), pamięć tylko do odczytu [feminine] (Polish), memória somente de leitura [feminine] (Portuguese), memória ROM [feminine] (Portuguese), постоянное запоминающее устро́йство (postojannoje zapominajuščeje ustrójstvo) [neuter] (Russian), ПЗУ (PZU) [neuter] (Russian), permanentná pamäť [feminine] (Slovak), brálni pomnílnik [masculine] (Slovene), memoria de solo lectura [feminine] (Spanish), memoria ROM [feminine] (Spanish), постійний запам'ятовувач (postijnyj zapamʺjatovuvač) [masculine] (Ukrainian), bộ nhớ chỉ đọc (Vietnamese), cof darllen yn unig [masculine] (Welsh)

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            "Taiwan"
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          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "word": "nurlegebla memoro"
        },
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "word": "lukumuisti"
        },
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "mémoire morte"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "mémoire fixe"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "mémoire ROM"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "code": "fur",
          "lang": "Friulian",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "memorie di sole leture"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "memoria de só lectura"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "memoria ROM"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Festwertspeicher"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Nur-Lese-Speicher"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "mními móno anágnosis",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "μνήμη μόνο ανάγνωσης"
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        {
          "code": "is",
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          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
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        {
          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "word": "memori hanya baca"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "cuimhne inléite amháin"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "memoria a sola lettura"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "memoria ROM"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "yomidashi sen'yō memori",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "word": "読み出し専用メモリ"
        },
        {
          "alt": "ロム",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "romu",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "word": "ROM"
        },
        {
          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "tūraqty jadtau qūrylğysy",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "word": "тұрақты жадтау құрылғысы"
        },
        {
          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "TJQ",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "word": "ТЖҚ"
        },
        {
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "lasāmatmiņa"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "memorija samo za čitanje",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "меморија само за читање"
        },
        {
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "word": "ingatan baca sahaja"
        },
        {
          "code": "mn",
          "lang": "Mongolian",
          "roman": "togtmol sanax oj",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "word": "тогтмол санах ой"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "pamięć tylko do odczytu"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "memória somente de leitura"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "memória ROM"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "postojannoje zapominajuščeje ustrójstvo",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "постоянное запоминающее устро́йство"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "PZU",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "ПЗУ"
        },
        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "permanentná pamäť"
        },
        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "brálni pomnílnik"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "memoria de solo lectura"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
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          ],
          "word": "memoria ROM"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "postijnyj zapamʺjatovuvač",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "постійний запам'ятовувач"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "word": "bộ nhớ chỉ đọc"
        },
        {
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "cof darllen yn unig"
        }
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      "code": "hy",
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      "roman": "miayn kardalu hišoġutʿyun",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "word": "միայն կարդալու հիշողություն"
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      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "word": "daimi yaddaş qurğusu"
    },
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      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "word": "唯讀記憶體"
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      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "wai⁴ duk⁶ gei³ jik¹ tai²",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "word": "唯读记忆体"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "word": "只讀內存"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhǐ dú nèicún",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "Mainland-China"
      ],
      "word": "只读内存"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "word": "只讀存儲器"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhǐdú cúnchǔqì, zhǐdú cúnchúqì",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "Mainland-China"
      ],
      "word": "只读存储器"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "word": "唯讀記憶體"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "wéi dú jìyì tǐ",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "Taiwan"
      ],
      "word": "唯读记忆体"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "word": "唯讀儲存器"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "wéidú chǔcúnqì, chúcúnqì",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "Taiwan"
      ],
      "word": "唯读储存器"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "rom"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "word": "nurlegebla memoro"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "word": "lukumuisti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mémoire morte"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mémoire fixe"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mémoire ROM"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mémoire à lecture seule"
    },
    {
      "code": "fur",
      "lang": "Friulian",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "memorie di sole leture"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "memoria de só lectura"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "memoria ROM"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Festwertspeicher"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Nur-Lese-Speicher"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "mními móno anágnosis",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "μνήμη μόνο ανάγνωσης"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "lesminni"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "word": "memori hanya baca"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cuimhne inléite amháin"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "memoria a sola lettura"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "memoria ROM"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "yomidashi sen'yō memori",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "word": "読み出し専用メモリ"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ロム",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "romu",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "word": "ROM"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "tūraqty jadtau qūrylğysy",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "word": "тұрақты жадтау құрылғысы"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "TJQ",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "word": "ТЖҚ"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lasāmatmiņa"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "memorija samo za čitanje",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "меморија само за читање"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "word": "ingatan baca sahaja"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "togtmol sanax oj",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "word": "тогтмол санах ой"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pamięć tylko do odczytu"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "memória somente de leitura"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "memória ROM"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "postojannoje zapominajuščeje ustrójstvo",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "постоянное запоминающее устро́йство"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "PZU",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ПЗУ"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "permanentná pamäť"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "brálni pomnílnik"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "memoria de solo lectura"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "memoria ROM"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "postijnyj zapamʺjatovuvač",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "постійний запам'ятовувач"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "word": "bộ nhớ chỉ đọc"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cof darllen yn unig"
    }
  ],
  "word": "read-only memory"
}

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