Dom

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DOM is an acronym for:

• 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine, a psychedelic hallucinogenic drug also known as STP
• Date of manufacture, usually figured in months, in preventive maintenance
• Days on market, how many days since a piece of real estate was listed for sale
• Delete-operator-message, a macro in computer programming
• Deo Optimo Maximo, Latin for "to the Greatest and Best God", originally Jove, later the Christian God
• Département d'outre-mer (D.O.M.), French overseas département
• Differential object marking, a linguistic phenomenon
• Directed ortho metalation, a chemical reaction mechanism
• Disk on module, an alternative to traditional computer hard disks
• Dissolved organic matter or dead organic matter, in soil chemistry
• D.O.M. (restaurant), a restaurant in São Paulo, Brazil
• Doctor of orthomolecular medicine
• Document Object Model, a way to refer to XML or HTML elements as objects
• Dominion of Melchizedek (DoM), a micronation known largely for facilitating large scale banking fraud in many parts of the world
• Drawn-over-mandrel, a principal method of manufacture for metal tubing

When not used as an acronym, Dom may refer to:

• Dom people, an ethnic group in the Middle East
• Dom Monastic title, given to Benedictine, Carthusian and Cistercian monks
• Dom (mountain), a mountain in the Swiss Alps
• Dom (title), a title of respect, derived from Latin Dominus, see also Don (honorific)
• Dom, a title of respect for one's master in BDSM, see Dominant (BDSM)
• Dom, the Principality of Zeon's mass-production mobile suit MS-09 Dom and MS-09R Rick Dom in the Universal Century canon of Mobile Suit Gundam
• Dom Tower of Utrecht, a tower in Utrecht, the Netherlands*Dom, short for dominion, a current or former overseas territory of the British Crown
• Dom, the three-letter country code for Dominican Republic
• Domba or Dom people, an ethnic group of India
• Dominic Santiago, a main character in the 2006 game Gears of War
• Dominic Santini, a character in the 1980s American television series Airwolf
• Dominic Wood, a British children's entertainer and TV presenter
• in German, designates the cathedral church of a see city
• Melville Hall Airport, Dominica (IATA airport code: DOM)
• The Cologne Cathedral in Germany, called the Kölner Dom in German

[edit] See also

• Dom Pérignon (wine), presumably the oldest Champagne