rem

Meanings

Noun

• Initialism of rapid eye movement, a sleep state.
• A dose of absorbed radiation equivalent to one roentgen of X-rays or gamma rays
• A remark; a programming language statement used for documentation (in BASIC for example); also used in DOS batch files.
• A unit relative to the declared font size of the root element in a HTML document.

Adjective

• remaining

Origin

• Initialism.
• Abbreviation of w:Roentgen equivalent man
• Shortening of remark.
• Shortening of remaining.