The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word NOME
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What does NOME mean?
NOME noun- A prefecture or unit of regional government in Greece.
- A territorial division of ancient Egypt.
- A type of musical composition in Ancient Greece.
- A term in an algebraic expression.
- Contraction of no ma'am
- A special function with which elliptic functions and modular forms can be described.