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Princeton's WordNet

  1. dram, drachm, drachmanoun

    a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains

  2. dramnoun

    1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams

  3. dramnoun

    the basic unit of money in Armenia

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. DRAMnoun

    Etymology: from drachm, drachma, Latin.

    The trial being made betwixt lead and lead, weighing severally seven drams in the air, the balance in the water weigheth only four drams and forty-one grains, and abateth of the weight in the air two drams and nineteen grains: the balance kept the same depth in the water as abovesaid. Francis Bacon.

    One loving hour
    For many years of sorrow can dispense;
    A dram of sweet is worth a pound of sour. Fairy Queen.

    No dram of judgment with thy force is join’d;
    Thy body is of profit, and my mind. John Dryden, Fables.

    I could do this, and that with no rash potion,
    But with a ling’ring dram, that should not work
    Maliciously like poison. William Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale.

    Every dram of brandy, every pot of ale that you drink, raiseth your character. Jonathan Swift.

    A second fee, by meeker manners known,
    And modest as the maid that sips alone;
    From the strong fate of drams if thou get free,
    Another Dursy, Ward! shall sing in thee. Alexander Pope, Dunciad.

  2. To Dramverb

    In low language, to drink drams; to drink distilled spirits.

    Etymology: from the noun.

Wikipedia

  1. dram

    Dynamic random-access memory (dynamic RAM or DRAM) is a type of random-access semiconductor memory that stores each bit of data in a memory cell, usually consisting of a tiny capacitor and a transistor, both typically based on metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) technology. While most DRAM memory cell designs use a capacitor and transistor, some only use two transistors. In the designs where a capacitor is used, the capacitor can either be charged or discharged; these two states are taken to represent the two values of a bit, conventionally called 0 and 1. The electric charge on the capacitors gradually leaks away; without intervention the data on the capacitor would soon be lost. To prevent this, DRAM requires an external memory refresh circuit which periodically rewrites the data in the capacitors, restoring them to their original charge. This refresh process is the defining characteristic of dynamic random-access memory, in contrast to static random-access memory (SRAM) which does not require data to be refreshed. Unlike flash memory, DRAM is volatile memory (vs. non-volatile memory), since it loses its data quickly when power is removed. However, DRAM does exhibit limited data remanence. DRAM typically takes the form of an integrated circuit chip, which can consist of dozens to billions of DRAM memory cells. DRAM chips are widely used in digital electronics where low-cost and high-capacity computer memory is required. One of the largest applications for DRAM is the main memory (colloquially called the "RAM") in modern computers and graphics cards (where the "main memory" is called the graphics memory). It is also used in many portable devices and video game consoles. In contrast, SRAM, which is faster and more expensive than DRAM, is typically used where speed is of greater concern than cost and size, such as the cache memories in processors. The need to refresh DRAM demands more complicated circuitry and timing than SRAM. This is offset by the structural simplicity of DRAM memory cells: only one transistor and a capacitor are required per bit, compared to four or six transistors in SRAM. This allows DRAM to reach very high densities with a simultaneous reduction in cost per bit. Refreshing the data consumes power and a variety of techniques are used to manage the overall power consumption. DRAM had a 47% increase in the price-per-bit in 2017, the largest jump in 30 years since the 45% jump in 1988, while in recent years the price has been going down. In 2018, a "key characteristic of the DRAM market is that there are currently only three major suppliers — Micron Technology, SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics" that are "keeping a pretty tight rein on their capacity.” There is also Kioxia (previously Toshiba Memory Corporation after 2017 spin-off). Other manufactures make and sell DIMMs (but not the DRAM chips in them), such as Kingston Technology, and some manufacturers that sell stacked DRAM (used e.g in the fastest exascale supercomputers), separately such as Viking Technology. Others sell such integrated into other products, such as Fujitsu into its CPUs, AMD in GPUs, and Nvidia, with HBM2 in some of their GPU chips.

ChatGPT

  1. dram

    A dram is a unit of weight in the avoirdupois system (used in both US customary and British imperial systems), primarily used to measure the weight of powder, medication, or liquor. A dram is approximately equivalent to 1.77 grams. In the context of theater, a dram refers to a small amount of a character's dialogue or a short script. It is derived from the word "drama". Also, in the context of Scottish currency, a dram is slang for a small amount of money. It can also mean a small drink of whiskey or other spirits.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dramnoun

    a weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains

  2. Dramnoun

    a minute quantity; a mite

  3. Dramnoun

    as much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison

  4. Dramnoun

    a Persian daric

  5. Dram

    to drink drams; to ply with drams

  6. Etymology: [OF. drame, F. drachme, L. drachma, drachm, drachma, fr. Gr. drachmh`, prop., a handful, fr. dra`ssesqai to grasp. Cf. Drachm, Drachma.]

Wikidata

  1. Dram

    The dram was originally both a coin and a weight in ancient Greece. It refers to a unit of mass in the avoirdupois system, and both a unit of mass and a unit of volume in the apothecaries' system. The unit of volume is more correctly called a fluid dram, fluid drachm, fluidram or fluidrachm.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Dram

    dram, n. a contraction of Drachm: 116th of an oz. avoirdupois: formerly, with apothecaries, ⅛th of an oz.: as much raw spirits as is drunk at once.—v.i. to drink a dram.—v.t. to give a dram to.—ns. Dram′-drink′er; Dram′-shop. [Through Fr. and L., from Gr. drachmē. See Drachma.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of DRAM in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of DRAM in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of DRAM in a Sentence

  1. Song Myeong-sup:

    The memory chip market is on the verge of a rebound ... especially the server DRAM memory chip market is rebounding faster than expected following a downturn as data center customers are buying up memory chips to build up their infrastructures.

  2. Park Sung-soon:

    Samsung will see solid third quarter results as DRAM prices spike further and display sales rise on new smartphone launches including from Apple. The unknown variable is smartphone sales, samsung is expected to lower the price of its foldables, making them more accessible to consumers.

  3. Park Sung-soon:

    Samsung will see solid third quarter results as DRAM prices spike further and display sales rise on new smartphone launches including from Apple. The unknown variable is smartphone sales.

  4. Chairman Zhao Weiguo:

    We don't have plans for DRAM at the moment, we need to take one step at a time.

  5. Song Myung-sup:

    DRAM chip prices appear to be turning around now, rather than later in the year as we expected.

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