Dom

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Dom may refer to:

• Dom people, an ethnic group in the middle east
• Domba or Dom people, an ethnic group of India
• Dom (mountain), a mountain in the Swiss Alps
• Dom, a title of respect – derived from Latin "Dominus" – for certain Benedictine and Carthusian monks, for example those of the English Benedictine Congregation (e.g. Dom John Chapman, late Abbot of Downside), the female equivalent being "Dame" (e.g. Dame Laurentia McLachlan, late Abbess of Stanbrook; Dame Felicitas Corrigan, author). It is also used in French, as in Dom Pérignon and with a special use for the popes of Avignon, analogous to the Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Don or Dom.
• Dom, a title of respect for one's master in BDSM (see Dominant (BDSM))
• Dom, one of the characters in the webcomic Megatokyo.
• 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
• Département d'outre-mer, a French overseas département
• Dom, a shortening of first names derived from Dominicus, such as Dominic, Domingo, Dominique
• Dom, short for dominion, a current or former overseas territory of the British Crown
• Dom, the three letter country code for Dominican Republic and Dominica
• Dom, short for the Domination gametype in Unreal Tournament

DOM may refer to:

• Disk on module, an alternative to traditional computer hard disks
• Document Object Model (DOM) is a way to refer to XML or HTML elements as objects
• Deo Optimo Maximo, Latin for 'to the Greatest and Best God', originally Jove, later the Christian God
• Doctor of Oriental Medicine
• DOM-Doctor of Orthomolecular Medicine
• DNM-Doctor of Natural Medicine
• 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine, a psychedelic hallucinogenic drug also known as STP
• Date of Manufacture, usually figured in months, in preventive maintenance
• The delete-operator-message macro, in computer programming
• Dissolved organic matter or dead organic matter, in soil chemistry
• Dirty Old Man, in instant messaging
• Dominion of Melchizedek (DoM), a micronation known largely for facilitating large scale banking fraud in many parts of the world

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• Dom Pérignon (wine), presumably the oldest Champagne