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LOM

Date "LOM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references)

"LOM" is a common misspelling or typo for: glom, loam, lob, log, loom, lop, lot, low, lox.


Specialty Definition: LOM

DomainDefinition

Computing

LOM A programming language developed in Toulouse in the early 1980s for data processing. (1996-03-01). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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Specialty Definition: Lom

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The municipality Lom in the county of Oppland, Norway, had 2,519 inhabitants as of January 1, 2002. It was the birthplace of the novelist Knut Hamsun, winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Lom is also famous for having one of the few remaining stave churches in Norway, and is the "gateway" to the Jotunheimen National Park, containing some of Norway's highest peaks.

Lom is also a town in Bulgaria.

External links

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lom."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: LOM

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

LOM

DutchLandelijk Overleg MinderhedenPublic Administration, Social Sciences

LOM

EnglishLAN on motherboardN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: LOM

Specialty definitions using "LOM": TLAs. (references)
Non-English Usage: "LOM" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Czech (quarry), Romansch (lung), Scottish (a plain, bald, bare, bare surface, cropped : air lom, into view, pl. luim, shaven), Serbo-Croatian (breakage, breaking, rubble, ruckus, rumpus, trash), Swedish (loon).

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Modern Usage: LOM

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Poo Lom (1977)

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Commercial Usage: LOM

DomainTitle

Books

  • Gamal bondekultur i Gudbrandsdalen : Lom og Skjaak (reference)

  • Lom konstrukcních materiálu pri rázovém zatezování (reference)

  • Mapping agrotopoclimates by integrating topographic, meteorological, and land ecological data in a geographic information system : a case study of the Lom Sak area, north central Thailand (reference)

  • Proceedings of the Symposium on Snow and Glacier Research Relating to Human Living Conditions held at Lom, Norway, 4-9 September 1988 (reference)

  • PT Pong Khabuankan Lom Phut (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Non-Fiction Usage: LOM

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Bulgaria

Ruse and Lom, both Danube ports, are also also commissioning feasibility studies on development of their port facilities. (references)

Bulgaria

Legislation mandates that the state retain at least a 51 percent interest in certain enumerated companies: the Ruse and Varna merchant and passenger marine fleets; major airports; the ports of Burgas, Lom, Varna and Ruse; Varna's aquatic ecological company; Transtroy road/rail/port construction company; and highway construction companies. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: LOM

"LOM" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LOM" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%1590,616

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LOM

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

lom

37

eve lom

22

3com gigabit lom

20

herbert lom

12

lom norway

6

firth lom

5

lom model

4

lom school

4

bausch lom

4

eve lom cleanser

4

hotel lom

3

eve lom skin care

3

firth lom town

3

kommune lom

3

lom norge

2

lom pattern

2

lom mamadou mika

2

lom sak

2

aircraft engine lom

2
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Modern Translation: LOM

Language Translations for "LOM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Scottish

  

lom (a plain, bald, bare, bare surface, cropped : air lom, into view, pl. luim, shaven). (various references)

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Derivations: LOM

Derivations

Words beginning with "LOM": lomein, lomeins, loment, lomenta, loments, lomentum, lomentums. (additional references)

Words ending with "LOM": celom, cimbalom, coelom, cymbalom, glom, shalom, sholom, slalom, whilom. (additional references)

Words containing "LOM": acoelomate, acoelomates, agglomerate, agglomerated, agglomerates, agglomerating, agglomeration, agglomerations, agglomerative, allelomorph, allelomorphic, allelomorphism, allelomorphisms, allelomorphs, allometric, allometries, allometry, allomorph, allomorphic, allomorphism, allomorphisms, allomorphs, anticonglomerate, aplomb, aplombs, bolometer, bolometers, bolometric, bolometrically, calomel, calomels, ceilometer, ceilometers, celomata, celoms, cephalometric, cephalometries, cephalometry, chylomicron, chylomicrons, cimbaloms, clomb, clomiphene, clomiphenes, clomp, clomped, clomping, clomps, coelomata, coelomate, coelomates. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: LOM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mol.

Words within the letters "l-m-o"

-1 letter: lo, mo, om.

 Words containing the letters "l-m-o"
 

+1 letter: glom, holm, limo, loam, loom, milo, moil, mola, mold, mole, moll, mols, molt, moly, mool.

 

+2 letters: alamo, amole, bloom, celom, clomb, clomp, comal, cymol, dolma, domal, gloam, gloms, gloom, golem, holms, lemon, limbo, limos, loams, loamy, locum, looms, melon, milos, modal, model, mogul, mohel, moils, molal, molar, molas, molds, moldy, moles, molls, molly, molto, molts, moola, mools, moral, morel, motel, mould, moult, oleum, osmol, smolt, solum.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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