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BOM

/bɔm//bɑm/

BOM is the acronym of bill of materials.

BOM is the acronym of byte order mark.

BOM is the acronym of business-office must.

BOM is the initialism of Book of Mormon.

BOM is the initialism of Bureau of Meteorology.

Meaning of bill of materials

Noun

bill of materials (plural bills of materials)

  1. A list of materials and components used in a manufactured item.

Meaning of byte order mark

Noun

byte order mark (plural byte order marks)

  1. A character indicating the endianness of a string of text.
    1. (especially) The Unicode character U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE.

Proper noun capitalized: BoM

BoM

  1. (Mormonism, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Book of Mormon.
  2. (Australia, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Bureau of Meteorology.

Noun capitalized: BoM

BoM (plural BoMs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of bill of materials.

Forms of BOM

pluralBOMs
pluralBoMs

Phrases with BOM

Words that rhyme with BOM

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Questions about BOM

What is BOM the acronym of?
BOM is the acronym of bill of materials.
What part of speech is BOM?
BOM can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce BOM?
BOM is pronounced /bɑm/ (US).

Words near BOM in the dictionary

  1. bolívar
  2. bolívares
  3. bolívars
  4. Bolğar
  5. Bolğars
  6. BOM
  7. Bom Bom
  8. boma
  9. Bomaderry
  10. Boman
  11. Bomans

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: BOM (page history and authors); BoM (page history and authors); bill of materials (page history and authors); byte order mark (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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