read-only memory

See also: read only memory

English

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.

Synonyms

• ROM

Antonyms

• write-only memory

Hypernyms

• nonvolatile (memory)

Hyponyms

• mask read-only memory, masked read-only memory (MROM)
• programmable read-only memory (PROM)

Translations

memory chip that stores values but doesn't allow updates

• Armenian: միայն կարդալու հիշողություն (miayn kardalu hišoġutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: daimi yaddaş qurğusu
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 唯讀記憶體／唯读记忆体 (wai⁴ duk⁶ gei³ jik¹ tai²)

  Mandarin: 只讀內存／只读内存 (zhǐ dú nèicún) (mainland China), 只讀存儲器／只读存储器 (zhǐdú cúnchǔqì, zhǐdú cúnchúqì) (mainland China), 唯讀記憶體／唯读记忆体 (wéi dú jìyì tǐ) (Taiwan), 唯讀儲存器／唯读储存器 (wéidú chǔcúnqì, chúcúnqì) (Taiwan)

• Danish: rom (da) c
• Esperanto: nurlegebla memoro
• Finnish: lukumuisti (fi)
• French: mémoire morte (fr) f, mémoire fixe f, mémoire ROM f, mémoire à lecture seule f
• Friulian: memorie di sole leture f
• Galician: memoria de só lectura f, memoria ROM f
• German: Festwertspeicher m, Nur-Lese-Speicher m
• Greek: μνήμη μόνο ανάγνωσης (el) f (mními móno anágnosis)
• Icelandic: lesminni n
• Indonesian: memori hanya baca
• Irish: cuimhne inléite amháin f
• Italian: memoria a sola lettura (it) f, memoria ROM f
• Japanese: 読み出し専用メモリ (yomidashi sen'yō memori), ROM (ロム, romu)
• Kazakh: тұрақты жадтау құрылғысы (tūraqty jadtau qūrylğysy), ТЖҚ (TJQ)
• Latvian: lasāmatmiņa f
• Macedonian: меморија само за читање f (memorija samo za čitanje)
• Malay: ingatan baca sahaja
• Mongolian: тогтмол санах ой (togtmol sanax oj)
• Polish: pamięć tylko do odczytu f
• Portuguese: memória somente de leitura f, memória ROM f
• Russian: постоянное запоминающее устро́йство n (postojannoje zapominajuščeje ustrójstvo), ПЗУ (ru) n (PZU)
• Slovak: permanentná pamäť f
• Slovene: brálni pomnílnik m
• Spanish: memoria de solo lectura f, memoria ROM f
• Ukrainian: постійний запам'ятовувач m (postijnyj zapamʺjatovuvač)
• Vietnamese: bộ nhớ chỉ đọc
• Welsh: cof darllen yn unig m

See also

• read-only memory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Filesystem permissions on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• random access memory, RAM
• flash memory