rem

Speech parts

1. rem - Noun

2. rem - Adjective

3. Rem - Proper noun

Meaning

a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep

(roentgen equivalent man) the dosage of ionizing radiation that will cause the same amount of injury to human tissue as 1 roentgen of X-rays

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

REM sleep rapid eye movement millirem paradoxical sleep rapid eye movement sleep

Antonyms

NREM

Hypernyms

sleep slumber radioactivity unit

Phrases with the word

quasi in rem rem cycle rem acu tetigisti

Examples

The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. REM and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else. Greg Ginn

Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow. Umberto Eco

I've been an REM fan since I was a little girl. I would jump around to 'Stand' in the mirror. Kirsten Dunst

How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit. Cicero

According to Hobson and other researchers, circuits in the brainstem are activated during REM sleep. Source: Internet

Aquatic mammal infants do not have REM sleep in infancy; citation REM sleep in those animals increases as they age. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Relyea relying on relyric rem acu tetigisti rem cycle rem out