English Words: R

21,470 words · Page 40 of 430

RAMnoun

Acronym of random-access memory.

ram homeverb

To hammer home, drive home.

Ram Lallaname

The child incarnation of Rama.

RAM packnoun

A hardware module containing RAM for use by another device.

Ram Ramphrase

A North Indian greeting.

ram's horn squidnoun

A squid-like cephalopod of species Spirula spirula, the only extant member of its taxonomic order, found in the deep ocean.

ram-catnoun

A tomcat.

ram-donnoun

jjapaguri/chapaguri; a dish made from the combination of two Korean instant noodle brands.

ram-jamverb

To roughly force into a small space or difficult position.

RAM-likeadj

Resembling RAM (random access memory).

ram-packedverb

simple past and past participle of ram-pack

ram-raidernoun

Alternative form of ramraider.

Ramaname

Alternative form of Rāma (“an incarnation of the god Vishnu in Hinduism”).

Ramachandraname

A male given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.

Ramachandranname

A surname.

Ramachandran plotnoun

A diagram that visualizes the energetically allowed regions for backbone dihedral angles ψ against φ of amino acid residues in protein structure.

ramadanoun

A simple arbour or open porch, typically roofed with branches.

Ramadamadingdongname

Alternative form of Ramalamadingdong.

Ramadanname

The holy ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, during which Muslims fast between the break of dawn until sunset; they also refrain from drinking liquids, smoking and having sexual relations.

Ramadan mubarakphrase

An expression used during Ramadan to wish someone a happy time during the holiday.

ramageadj

of a person or thing: wild; untamed

Ramahname

A Moravian ghost town in Nunatsiavut, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Ramakrishnanname

A surname from Tamil.

ramaladj

Relating to a branch.

Ramalamadingdongname

The Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

Ramalesname

A surname from Spanish.

Ramalhoname

A surname from Portuguese.

Ramalingamname

A surname from Tamil.

Ramallahname

A city in the West Bank, Palestine.

Raman effectnoun

the inelastic scattering of photons with subsequent change in frequency and phase; employed in Raman spectroscopy

Raman lasernoun

A laser in which the fundamental light-amplification mechanism is stimulated Raman scattering.

Raman optical activitynoun

The differential Raman scattering of left and right circularly polarized light by chiral molecules.

Raman spectroscopynoun

A form of spectroscopy that uses the Raman effect to study low-frequency vibrational and rotational modes of molecules.

Ramanathanname

A surname from Tamil.

Ramanathapuramname

A town in Tamil Nadu, India.

Ramanavaminame

A Hindu festival on the 9th day of Chaitra, i.e. Rama's birthday.

Ramaniname

A surname.

Ramanujaname

A Hindu theologian and philosopher.

Ramanujanname

A surname from Tamil.

Ramanujan conjecturename

A conjecture stating that the Ramanujan tau function given by the Fourier coefficients τ(n) of the cusp form Δ(z) of weight 12 Δ(z)=∑_(n>0)τ(n)qⁿ=q∏_(n>0)(1-qⁿ)²⁴=q-24q²+252q³-1472q⁴+4830q⁵-⋯, where q=e^(2πiz), satisfies |τ(p)|≤2p^(11/2), when p is a prime number.

Ramanujan graphnoun

A regular graph whose spectral gap is almost as large as possible, making it an excellent spectral expander. Such graphs are relevant to diverse branches of pure mathematics.

Ramanujan summationnoun

A technique for assigning a value to an infinite divergent series, not summation in the traditional sense, but having useful mathematical properties.

Ramanujan theta functionname

A theta function that generalizes the form of the Jacobi theta functions while capturing their general properties. It is defined as: f(a,b)=∑_(n=-∞) ᪲a^( frac )n(n+1)2;b^( frac )n(n-1)2 for |ab| < 1.

Ramanujan's constantname

The transcendental number e^(π√), an almost integer, discovered in 1859 by mathematician Charles Hermite.

Ramanujan-Petersson conjecturename

A generalization of the Ramanujan conjecture to other modular forms or automorphic forms.

Ramaphosaname

A surname.

ramaramanoun

A species of evergreen myrtle tree, Lophomyrtus bullata.

Ramasamudramname

A village in Andhra Pradesh.

Ramasamyname

A surname from Tamil.

Ramaswamyname

A surname from Tamil.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter R contains 21,470 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 430 pages, and you are currently viewing page 40. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

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