Tom

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Tom is an abbreviated version of the given name Thomas or Tomas.

Tom or TOM may also refer to:

• Tom (instrument), an mbira-like musical instrument of Ethiopia
• Tan (surname), a Chinese surname sometimes spelled Tom
• Theory of mind (often abbreviated as ToM)
• Tomboy, a female who behaves according to the gender role of a boy
• Thomsonfly, from its ICAO airline code
• Tom-tom drum, a type of drum
• TomTom (company), a GPS navigation software and equipment manufacturer
• Tournament of Minds, an annual children's competition held in Australia
• Tune-o-matic, a guitar bridge
• Uncle Tom, a character from the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Cockney rhyming slang for "jewelry", from "tomfoolery"
• The cat in the MGM cartoon series Tom and Jerry
• Half of the unrelated 1930s Van Beuren Studios cartoon duo Tom and Jerry (Van Beuren)
• Toonami Operations Module, the robotic host of Cartoon Network's Toonami block; see Toonami glossary
• Transmitter outer membrane, a channel involved in protein transport in mitochondria; see Mitochondrial membrane transport protein
• TOM Online, a mobile internet company in Hong Kong, China
• Text Object Model, a Microsoft Windows Rich Text Manipulation Application Programming Interface
• TOM early microfiche display
• Two rivers in Russia
  • Tom River in the Ob basin
  • Tom River (Amur Oblast) in the Amur basin
• Tomcat, a male cat
• Target Operating Model
• Tom Riddle