REM

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See also: rem, R.E.M., rém, and rëm

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Etymology 1

 rapid eye movement on Wikipedia

From the initial letters of rapid eye movement.

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Noun

REM (countable and uncountable, plural REMs)

  1. Initialism of rapid eye movement.
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Etymology 2

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Noun

REM (uncountable)

  1. (music) Initialism of remaining time.

Noun

REM (plural REMs)

  1. (computing) A remark (programming language statement used for documentation).
    • 2006 December 24, David Williams, “satellite program”, in comp.lang.basic.visual.misc‎ (Usenet):
      I think it should be upgraded to Visual BASIC, but I'm no good at that. So maybe someone here would like to take a crack at it. There are only 40 lines of active code, plus a few REMs. About 100 BASIC commands altogether.

Etymology 3

Abbreviation

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Noun

REM (uncountable)

  1. (chemistry) Initialism of rare earth metal.

Noun

REM (plural REMs)

  1. Abbreviation of reactive electrochemical membrane.

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