Appendix Acronyms R

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Acronyms - R

R Restricted [Movie rating]

R Rolemaster

RA Regular Army

RA Research Assistant

RA Royal Academy

RAAF Royal Australian Air Force

RACE Random Access Card Equipment

RACEP Random Access and Correlation for Extended Performance

RAD Radiation Absorbed Dose

RAD Rapid Access Disk

RADAR RAdio Detection And Ranging

RADM Rear ADMiral

RAF Royal Air Force

RAM Random Access Memory (R/W)

RAM Red Academicia de Mexico (Mexican Academic Network)

RARDE Royal Armaments Research and Development Establishment

RARE R\'eseaux Associ\'es pour la Recherche Europ\'eenne (the European Organization of Research Networks)

RAS Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability

RASC Residence Account Service Center

RATS Radio Amateur Telecommunications Society

R&B Rhythm and Blues (commonly R and B)

RBC Red Blood Count

RBI Runs Batted In

RBOC Regional Bell Operating Company

RC Red Cross

RC Regional Center

RC Resistor-Capacitor circuit (as in filters)

RC Roman Catholic

RCA Radio Corporation of America [Corporate name]

RCAF Royal Canadian Air Force

RCAS Reserve Component Automation System

RCC Radio Common Carrier

RCMP Royal Canadian Mounted Police

RCS Reaction Control System [Space]

R&D Research and Development (commonly R and D)

RD Rural Delivery

RDA Remote Data Access

RDBMS Relational DataBase Management System

RDF Radio Direction Finding

REA Rail Express Agency

RECON Reconnaissance

REM Rapid Eye Movement

REO R. E. Olds

REO Removable, Erasable, Optical

RETMA Radio {something(equipment?)?} {something?} Manufacturers' Association (????)

REXX Restructured EXtended eXecutor

RF Radio Frequency

RF Radio Frequency [Space]

RFC Request For Comments (ala ARPA Internet)

RFD Rehoboth (MA) Fire Department

RFD Rural Free Delivery

RFI Radio Frequency Interference

RFI Radio Frequency Interference [Space]

RFP Request for Proposal

RFQ Request for Quote

RFS Remote File System

RGB Red Green Blue

RGP Raster Graphics Processor

RH Right Hand

RHC Regional (Bell) Holding Company

RHS Right Hand Side

RI Rhode Island

RIACS Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (NASA)

RIACS Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science [Space]

RIAS Radio In the American Sector, berlin

RIF Reading Is Fundamental

RIF Reduction In Force

RILM Repertoire International de Literature Musicale

RIP Rest In Peace (or Requiescat In Pace : latin)

RIP Routing Interchange Protocol

RIPE R\'eseaux IP Europ\'eenne (European IP Networks) (of RARE, q.v.)

RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer

RITA Recognition of Information Technology Achievement award

RJE Remote Job Entry

RLC Resistor Inductor Capacitor

RLG Research Libraries Group

RLIN Research Libraries Information Network (run by RLG (q.v.))

RLL Run Length Limited

RMA Radio Manufacturers' Association

RMA Return Materials Authorization

RMATS Remote Maintenance Administration and Traffic System [Telephony]

RMS Remote Manipulator System [Space]

RMS Richard M. Stallman

RMS Root Mean Square

RMS Royal Mail Ship

RN Registered Nurse

RN Royal Navy

RNA RiboNucleic Acid

RNGC Revised New General Catalog [Space]

RNZAF Royal New Zealand Air Force

ROFF Run-OFF

ROG Receipt Of Goods

ROM Range Of Motion [Medicine]

ROM Read-Only Memory

ROM Rupture Of Membrane (as in birth)

ROSAT ROentgen SATellite [Space]

ROSE RATS (q.v.) Open Systems Environment

ROSE Remote Operations Service Entity (per ISO/CCITT layer 7)

ROTC Reserve Officers' Training Corps

ROTS Rotary Out Trunks Selectors

ROYGBIV Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet

RPC Remote Procedure Call

RPG RePort Generator

RPG Role Playing Game

RPI Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

RPM Revolutions Per Minute

RPN Reverse Polish Notation

RPO Railway Post Office

RPS Revolutions Per Second

RPV Remotely Piloted Vehicle

RQ RuneQuest

RR RailRoad

RR Route Relay

RR Rural Route

RRO Rate and Route Operator [Telephony]

RS Recommended Standard (EIA)

RS Recording Secretary

RS Revised Status

RS Right Side

RS Royal Society

RSCS Remote Spooling Communications Subsystem

RSFSR Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic

RSN Real Soon Now

RSU Remote Switching Unit

RSV Revised Standard Edition

RSVP Repondez S'il Vous Plait (please reply)

RSWC Right Side up With Care

RT RadioTelephone

RT RealTime

RTA Remote Trunk Arrangement [Telephony]

RTAC Regional Technical Assistance Center [Telephony]

RTF Rich Text Format

RTFM Read The @!# Manual

RTFM Read The F***ing Manual

RTG Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator

RTG Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator [Space]

RTLS Return To Launch Site (Shuttle abort mode) [NASA, Shuttle, Space]

RTR Ready to Run [Model Railroading]

RTR Reel-To-Reel

RTS Request To Send (EIA RS-232-C)

RTTY Radio Teletype

RU Receive Unit

RVD Remote Virtual Disk [MIT]

RW Right Worshipful

RW Right Worthy

RX Receive

Ry Railway