rem

Definitions

1. Initialism of rapid eye movement.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
2. Initialism of remaining time.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
3. A remark (programming language statement used for documentation).
4. Initialism of rare earth metal.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
5. An Egyptian fish god who fertilized the land with his tears.
   Egyptian
6. A Remington firearm.
   colloquial
7. Initialism of rapid eye movement, a sleep state.
   abbreviation, alt-of, capitalized, initialism, often
8. A non-SI unit of measure for radiation dose, measured as equivalent dose, effective dose, or committed dose, from one roentgen of X-rays or gamma rays.
9. A remark; a programming language statement used for documentation (in BASIC for example); also used in DOS batch files.
10. A unit relative to the declared font size of the root element in an HTML document.
11. Abbreviation of reactive electrochemical membrane.
    abbreviation, alt-of
12. Initialism of Reference Exit Marker.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Equivalents

Examples

“Similarly, the brain-penetrating Hrh2 antagonist zolantidine had no effect on light-induced phase shift as shown for hamsters, or the lengths or distributions of NREM, REM and wakefulness states as shown on rats.”

“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.”

“Like⟳ the em unit, the rem unit is based on declared font size. The difference—and it’s a doozy—is that whereas em is calculated using the font size of the element to which it’s applied, rem is always calculated using the root element.”

“Pre-64 Win⟳ has a heritage that can't be beat⟳. For me, it's Rems for prarie dogs and paper, Wins (or 1917 Enfields) for stuff that wants to stomp you into a greasy spot on the tundra.”

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