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Redistribution layer

A redistribution layer (RDL) is an interconnect structure on a die or wafer that reroutes peripheral I/O pads to an area array, enabling wafer-level chip-scale and fan-out packaging.

Redistribution of income and wealth

Redistribution of income and wealth, also called income redistribution, is the change in resource distribution produced by government taxes and transfers, measured with the Gini coefficient.

Redistricting

Redistricting is the once-a-decade redrawing of U.S. congressional and state legislative district boundaries after the census, following apportionment of 435 House seats; shaped by one-person-one-vote cases, the Voting Rights Act, gerrymandering, and independent commissions.

Redland

Redland (Redland City, Redlands Coast), Queensland LGA 36250 on Moreton Bay: 159,222 people (2021), city status 2008, ten divisions, City Plan 2018, bay islands including Minjerribah/North Stradbroke Island.

Redlands, California

Redlands, California: Inland Empire city in San Bernardino County, founded 1881, incorporated 1888, once the Washington Navel Orange Growing Capital of the World; population about 74,000, home of the University of Redlands and Redlands Bowl.

Redlich–Kwong equation of state

The Redlich–Kwong equation of state is a two-parameter cubic equation of state for real gases, proposed by Otto Redlich and Joseph N. Kwong in 1949 to improve on the van der Waals equation.

Redlichia

Redlichia (Cossmann, 1902) is an extinct early Cambrian trilobite genus of the family Redlichiidae, type species H. noetlingi, known from China, Korea, Pakistan, Iran, Spain, Siberia, Antarctica, and Australia, reaching 25 cm in the Emu Bay Shale species R. rex.

Redlight

Redlight is the performing name of Hugh Pescod, a British DJ and producer based in London, best known for the 2012 single "Get Out My Head".

Redline (レッドライン) (2009 film)

Redline (レッドライン) is a 2009 hand-drawn Madhouse racing anime, the feature directing debut of Takeshi Koike: seven years in production, 100,000 drawings, no CGI, starring Takuya Kimura, Yu Aoi, and Tadanobu Asano, released in Japan October 9, 2010.

RedLine Stealer

RedLine Stealer is a credential-stealing malware sold on underground forums since 2020 that harvested passwords, credit cards, and crypto wallets before being taken down in October 2024.

Redlining

Redlining is the practice of denying or overpricing mortgages, insurance, and other services in neighborhoods deemed risky based on racial composition or income rather than individual creditworthiness, named for 1930s federal maps.

Redlisted & Blacklisted plants

Redlisted and blacklisted plants: red lists record species at risk of extinction; black lists (notably Norway's Artsdatabanken lists) record alien, ecologically risky invasive plants, distinct from legally banned species.

Redmagic (红魔)

Redmagic (红魔) is a gaming smartphone brand established in 2018 by Nubia, a subsidiary of ZTE, known for built-in centrifugal fans and liquid cooling in its phones.

Redman (rapper)

Redman, born Reginald Noble in 1970, is an American rapper from Newark, New Jersey whose 1992 debut Whut? Thee Album began a streak of gold and platinum albums.

RedMaPPer

RedMaPPer (red-sequence Matched-filter Probabilistic Percolation) is a photometric galaxy-cluster finding algorithm introduced by Eli Rykoff and Eduardo Rozo in 2014, whose catalogs of red-sequence clusters are widely used for cluster cosmology.

Redmi

Redmi (红米), also known as Xiaomi Hongmi, is a Xiaomi-owned consumer electronics brand launched in 2013 as a budget smartphone line and made independent in 2019.

Redmi 15

Redmi 15 (Redmi Note 15R in China) is Xiaomi's 2025 budget phone line with a 7,000mAh Si-C battery, 33W charging, Snapdragon 6s Gen 3, 6.9-inch 144Hz display, HyperOS 2 on Android 15, launched in India at Rs. 14,999.

Redmi 15C

The Redmi 15C is a budget smartphone line from Redmi, Xiaomi's sub-brand, released in 4G and 5G versions in late 2025, succeeding the Redmi 14C.

Redmi Note 13

The Redmi Note 13, including the Note 13 Pro, is a smartphone series from Xiaomi's Redmi brand, launched in China in late 2023 and globally in January 2024.

Redmile Biopharma Investments

Redmile Biopharma Investments is a series of three Delaware biotechnology venture capital funds, raised between 2015 and 2021 and managed by the San Francisco firm Redmile Group.

Redmile Growth Investments

Redmile Growth Investments is a Delaware venture capital fund based in San Francisco and managed by the healthcare investment firm Redmile Group, reporting $122 million sold in a 2021 offering.

Redmond, Washington

Redmond, Washington: King County city in the Sammamish Valley, incorporated December 31, 1912, once a logging town called Salmonberg, now home to Microsoft's headquarters with about 80,040 residents in 2023.

Redneck

Redneck: slang, usually derogatory, term for a poor rural white Southerner, from the sunburned necks of field laborers; first recorded 1830 (Presbyterians, Fayetteville NC); later a coalfield badge of class solidarity and a reclaimed identity.

Redneck Revolt

Redneck Revolt, also tied to the John Brown Gun Club, is a US left-wing, pro-gun, anti-racist community defense network founded around 2009 and rebranded 2016, known for red bandanas, firearms training, and counter-protests against the far right.

Rednex

Rednex is a Swedish Eurodance-country project created in Stockholm in 1992 by producers Jan Ericsson, Örjan Öberg, and Pat Reiniz, famous for the 1994 hit "Cotton Eye Joe", a Eurodance remake of an American folk song that topped charts across Europe and later fueled the 2024 Gegagedigedagedago viral event.

Redo of Healer (回復術士のやり直し)

Redo of Healer (回復術士のやり直し) is a dark revenge fantasy light novel by Tsukiyo Rui, Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko, 2017; healing hero Keyaru rewinds time for revenge; 2021 TV anime by TNK; manga by Souken Haga ongoing.

Redology

Redology (紅學) is the field of scholarship devoted to Dream of the Red Chamber, the eighteenth-century Chinese novel by Cao Xueqin, covering its text, versions, and background.

Redonda Formation

Redonda Formation: Upper Triassic red-bed unit, uppermost Chinle Group and Dockum Group in New Mexico; lacustrine mudstones and siltstones up to 92 m thick with Apachean tetrapod fauna and ichnofossils.

Redondilla

The redondilla is a Spanish stanza of four octosyllabic lines rhyming abba, the first with the fourth and second with the third, dominant in Golden Age theater.

Redondo Beach, California

Redondo Beach is a coastal city on Santa Monica Bay in Los Angeles County, California, incorporated in 1892 with a 1.5-mile shoreline and horseshoe-shaped pier.