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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A programmable read-only memory that can be erased by exposure to ultraviolet light and then reprogrammed.

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  • initialism electronics erasable programmable read-only memory

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  • noun (computer science) a read-only memory chip that can be erased by ultraviolet light and programmed again with new data

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[e(rasable) p(rogrammable) r(ead-)o(nly) m(emory).]

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