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Term: Foram

Description:

In biology, a foram refers to a type of marine microorganism belonging to the phylum Foraminifera. Forams typically have a shell or test made of calcium carbonate and are abundant in various marine environments. They play a significant role as bioindicators and are widely studied to understand past environmental conditions and climate change.

In computer science, foram can be short for "forward atom" or "form-based multiway atomic processing." It is a concept used in high-performance computing to enable efficient data parallelism and computation using multiway trees.

Sample Sentences:

1. Scientists are analyzing foram fossils extracted from sediment cores to reconstruct ancient ocean conditions.
2. The abundance and diversity of forams in the study area indicate a healthy marine ecosystem.
3. Researchers are developing new algorithms to optimize foram processing in parallel computing.
4. The foram structure enables simultaneous processing of multiple computations.

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