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Room (2015 film)
Room (2015) is Lenny Abrahamson's drama adapted by Emma Donoghue from her novel, starring Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay as a captive mother and son; it won Larson the Best Actress Oscar and was nominated for four Academy Awards.
Room (novel)
Room (2010) by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue: a Man Booker-shortlisted novel narrated by five-year-old Jack, born in captivity with his Ma, inspired by the Fritzl case; adapted into a 2015 Oscar-nominated film.
Room 104
Room 104 is an HBO anthology series (2017-2020) created by Mark and Jay Duplass: 48 half-hour episodes, all set in one motel room, spanning genres and eras, ending with the finale Generations in October 2020.
Room 222
Room 222: American half-hour comedy-drama on ABC, 1969–1974, created by James L. Brooks; Lloyd Haynes as teacher Pete Dixon at Walt Whitman High, Los Angeles; won 3 Emmys including Outstanding New Series.
Room 237
Room 237 (Rodney Ascher, 2012) is a 102-minute documentary about interpretations of Kubrick's The Shining, featuring five unseen narrators including Bill Blakemore and Jay Weidner, theories from Native American genocide to a faked moon landing, Sundance premiere, and 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Room 39
Room 39, also Office 39 or Bureau 39, is North Korea's secretive Workers' Party foreign-currency bureau, created in the 1970s, funding the Kim leadership through trade, counterfeiting, narcotics, and cyber crime despite sanctions.
Room 40
Room 40 was the British Admiralty's First World War codebreaking section, formed October 1914, which decrypted about 15,000 German messages, misread Scheer's callsign before Jutland, and revealed the Zimmermann telegram.
Room 641A
Room 641A, or SG3 Secure Room, was a secure room in AT&T's San Francisco facility where whistleblower Mark Klein said the NSA copied internet traffic, revealed in 2006.
Room 999 (号室)
Room 999 (999号室) is a dystopian manga by Nanga Nan, serialized since November 2025 in Shogakukan's Monthly! Spirits, about courier 1871 delivering letters to monsters in a giant housing block; volume 1 (May 2026) passed 79,999 copies in print.
Room and pillar mining
Room and pillar mining is an underground coal mining method in which pillars of coal are left standing to support the roof, recovering about 40 to 60% of the seam.
Room at the Top
Room at the Top (1958) is Jack Clayton's British drama, adapted from John Braine's 1957 novel, starring Laurence Harvey and Oscar-winning Simone Signoret; it launched the British New Wave kitchen-sink cycle and won two Academy Awards.
Room for Rent (2019 film)
Room for Rent (2019) is an American psychological thriller directed by Tommy Stovall, written by Stuart Flack, starring Lin Shaye as widowed Joyce, who becomes obsessed with tenant Bob (Oliver Rayon); premiered at Sedona, released May 3, 2019, distinct from the 2018 Canadian comedy of the same name.
Room for Squares
Room for Squares is John Mayer's debut studio album, released June 5, 2001 on Aware Records and re-released by Columbia on September 18, 2001; 13 tracks, 54 minutes, produced by John Alagía.
Room for the River (Netherlands)
Room for the River (Ruimte voor de Rivier) is a Dutch flood-protection program that gives rivers more space rather than raising dikes, running from 2006 to 2019.
Room in New York
Room in New York is a 1932 oil painting by Edward Hopper depicting a couple in a lighted apartment at night, held by the Sheldon Museum of Art in Nebraska.
Room in Rome
Room in Rome (Habitación en Roma) is Julio Medem's 2010 Spanish erotic drama, a remake of En la cama, starring Elena Anaya and Natasha Yarovenko as two women who spend one night together in a Rome hotel room.
Room on Fire
Room on Fire is The Strokes' second studio album (RCA, October 2003), produced by Gordon Raphael after scrapped Nigel Godrich sessions; 11 tracks in 33 minutes, Metacritic 77, Platinum, UK number 2, later reappraised with Pitchfork's 9.2.
Room temperature
Room temperature is the range of air temperatures typical of indoor settings, roughly 20 to 25 °C, though fields fix different values, from 20 °C in metrology to 25 °C in chemistry.
Room Under the Stairs
Room Under the Stairs is the fourth studio album by Zayn, released May 17, 2024, on Mercury Records. Co-produced with Dave Cobb and recorded in a shoe cupboard at his rural Pennsylvania home, it shifts from R&B toward stripped-back, country-inspired material.
Room-temperature exciton–polariton condensation in organic semiconductors
Room-temperature exciton–polariton condensation in organic semiconductors is the formation of coherent, Bose–Einstein-like condensates of hybrid light–matter quasiparticles at ambient temperature, first shown in anthracene crystals.
Room-temperature phosphorescent supramolecular polymers
Room-temperature phosphorescent supramolecular polymers are polymer systems that emit long-lived phosphorescence at ambient conditions, held together by noncovalent interactions, with uses in anti-counterfeiting, bio-imaging, and sensing.
Room-temperature polariton lasing in perovskites
Room-temperature polariton lasing in perovskites is the generation of coherent light from a condensate of exciton-polaritons in perovskite microcavities without cooling, first demonstrated in 2017 and later achieved with electrical pumping.
Room-temperature polariton superfluidity
Room-temperature polariton superfluidity is the observation of superfluid-like flow in a condensate of exciton-polaritons without cooling, first reported in 2017 at CNR NANOTEC in Lecce, Italy.
Room-temperature superconductor
A room-temperature superconductor, or room-temperature superconductivity, is a hypothetical material conducting electricity with zero resistance near 20 °C. No confirmed material superconducts at ambient pressure; hydrides reach 250 K only under extreme pressure.
Roomba
Roomba, also known as the iRobot Roomba, is a series of autonomous robotic vacuum cleaners made by iRobot, first sold in September 2002 and credited with creating the robot vacuum category.
Roombots
Roombots is a self-reconfiguring modular robotic system developed at EPFL's BioRobotics Laboratory in Lausanne, Switzerland, intended as building blocks for furniture that moves and reconfigures itself.
Roommate
Roommate: a person sharing living space with a non-family co-tenant, mainly to cut housing costs. Covers the economics of shared rents, college roommate matching, and the matching-theory roommate problem.
Roommate (룸메이트) (TV program)
Roommate (룸메이트) was an SBS Korean observational reality show (2014–2015, two seasons) in which celebrities including Lee Dong-wook, Nana, Park Bom, and Chanyeol shared a Seongbuk-dong house, moving from Good Sunday to Tuesday nights before ending April 14, 2015.
Roommates (2026 film)
Roommates (2026) is a Netflix college comedy directed by Chandler Levack, written by SNL writers Jimmy Fowlie and Ceara O'Sullivan, starring Sadie Sandler and Chloe East as roommates whose friendship turns hostile; released April 17, 2026, produced by Happy Madison.
Roommates (Hilary Duff song)
"Roommates" (Hilary Duff song), released January 15, 2026 on Atlantic Records, is the second single from the album luck… or something; co-written with Matthew Koma and Brian Phillips, produced by Koma and Phillips, with a Matty Peacock-directed video.