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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
random access memory
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In fact, it had no random access memory at all.
▪ It comes with eight megabytes of random access memory, a must since it also comes with Windows 95.
▪ Logitech's FotoMan digital camera stores 32 digitized photos in random access memory instead of on film.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
random access memory

main memory \main memory\ n. (Computers) The memory in a computer that holds programs and data for rapid access during execution of a program; it usually hold the largest quantity of rapid-access storage in a computer; -- also called RAM ( random access memory. It is contrasted to ROM, disk data storage, cache, registers and other forms of data storage.

Wiktionary
random access memory

n. 1 (context electronics English) Computer memory that dynamically stores program and data values during operation and in which each byte of memory may be directly accessed. 2 (context computing English) The main memory of a computer available for program execution or data storage.

WordNet
random access memory

n. the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible [syn: random-access memory, random memory, RAM, read/write memory]

Usage examples of "random access memory".

You see instead a slot that is waiting for this RISC, a reduced instruction set chip with tons of RAM--random access memory--and plenty of PROM--programmed read only memory--for start-up and function.

It requires around six hundred trillion bits of random access memory to keep track of all the chemical processes in a simple animal.

I was getting ready to turn control over to HKL GCL (Captain Hives) when that dear little electronic idiot crashed its RAM-its Random Access Memory on which was written our descent program.

RAM-its Random Access Memory on which was written our descent program.