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Remote terminal unit

A remote terminal unit (RTU), also known as a remote telemetry unit, is a microprocessor-controlled device at a remote field site that communicates with a central SCADA system.

Remote Tower Service

Remote Tower Service is the provision of airport air traffic control or flight information services from a remote center using cameras, sensors, and data networks instead of a tower.

Remote viewing is the claimed psychic ability to describe distant or unseen targets, studied from the 1970s at SRI by Targ and Puthoff and funded by the CIA and DIA under Project Star Gate until its 1995 termination.

Remote-center-of-motion wrist

A remote-center-of-motion wrist is a robotic mechanism, or control scheme, that pivots a tool about a fixed point away from itself, keeping incisions from tearing in minimally invasive surgery.

Remotely operated underwater vehicle

A remotely operated underwater vehicle, or ROV, is a tethered underwater robot piloted in real time from a surface ship, first developed by the U.S. Navy in the 1960s.

Remoulade

Remoulade (French rémoulade) is a cold mayonnaise sauce with mustard, capers, pickles, herbs, and often anchovies; regional forms include sweet yellow Danish remoulade and red Creole remoulade of Louisiana.

Remount Veterinary Corps

The Remount Veterinary Corps, also known as the Indian Army Remount and Veterinary Corps, breeds, trains, and provides veterinary services for all Indian Army animals.

Removable Orthodontic Appliances

Removable orthodontic appliances are patient-removable dental devices (retainers, functional appliances, simple tooth-movers, clear aligners) used to close tooth gaps and guide jaw structure; first used by Kneisel in 1836, best for mild-to-moderate malocclusion.

Removal of cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act

Federal process to move marijuana (cannabis) out of Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act into Schedule III, distinct from descheduling or legalization; spans Biden's 2022 review, HHS's 2023 recommendation, the May 2024 DEA proposed rule, and the 2026 partial rescheduling and hearings.

Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials

Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials: taking down or relocating statues honoring the Confederacy, mostly erected 1890-1920 by Lost Cause groups like the UDC; removals accelerated after 2015, opposed by state monument-protection laws and divided public opinion.

Removal of Sam Altman from OpenAI

The removal of Sam Altman from OpenAI was his firing as CEO by the board on November 17, 2023, reversed five days later after an employee revolt.

Sep 24, 2026

Removal of the anti-Christian edict boards

The removal of the anti-Christian edict boards (キリシタン禁制高札撤去) was a Meiji government act of February 24, 1873, ending Japan's more than two-century ban on Christianity.

Sep 24, 2026

Removal of the capital to Heijō-kyō

The removal of the capital to Heijō-kyō (平城京遷都) moved Japan's capital from Fujiwara-kyō to the newly built Heijō-kyō, near modern Nara, in 710 under Empress Genmei, beginning the Nara period.

Sep 24, 2026

Removal of the capital to Thang Long

The removal of the capital to Thang Long was the 1010 transfer of Vietnam's capital from Hoa Lu by King Ly Thai To, who renamed the site Thang Long.

Oct 22, 2026

Removal of the Hungarian border fence

The removal of the Hungarian border fence was the 1989 dismantling of the electrified barbed-wire barrier along Hungary's border with Austria, the first breach in the Iron Curtain.

Sep 19, 2026

Removal of the Marduk statue by Tukulti-Ninurta I

The removal of the Marduk statue by Tukulti-Ninurta I was the carrying of Babylon's statue of Marduk to Assyria after the Middle Assyrian king captured Kaštiliaš IV, around 1225 BC.

Sep 19, 2026

Removal of the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin to Susa

The removal of the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin to Susa was the transfer of the stele from Sippar to Susa as Elamite war booty in the 12th century BC.

RemoveDEBRIS

RemoveDEBRIS was a British-led technology demonstration satellite deployed from the ISS in 2018 that tested space debris removal with a net, harpoon, and drag sail.

Remoxipride

Remoxipride is a selective dopamine D2 antagonist of the substituted benzamide class, sold by Astra as Roxiam for schizophrenia and withdrawn in 1993 over aplastic anemia.

Remscheid

Remscheid, German city in North Rhine-Westphalia's Bergisches Land, about 40 km from Düsseldorf; smallest independent city in NRW with ~110,000 residents. Industrial toolmaking center, birthplace of Röntgen and the Mannesmann brothers, first mentioned 1132, city since 1808.

Remstecken

Remstecken is a recreation area in the Koblenz city forest, Germany, featuring a partially reconstructed Roman villa rustica (1st to 3rd century AD), a wildlife park, the Waldökostation nature center, and the Forsthaus Remstecken hotel.

Remternetug

Remternetug (LY3372993) is Eli Lilly's investigational IgG1 antibody against pyroglutamate amyloid-beta plaques in Alzheimer's disease, developed as a subcutaneous monthly successor to donanemab (Kisunla), now in phase 3 TRAILRUNNER-ALZ trials.

Remuh Cemetery, Kraków

The Remuh Cemetery is a 16th-century Jewish cemetery in Kraków's Kazimierz district, one of the oldest in Europe, holding 711 tombstones and the grave of Moses Isserles.

Remuneration

Remuneration is the total payment, monetary and in kind, given for work or services, covering wages, salaries, bonuses, commissions, and benefits. From Latin remunerari; distinct from narrower wage or salary.

REMUS 300

The REMUS 300 is a two-person-portable modular unmanned underwater vehicle built by HII, offering up to 30 hours of endurance and a 305-meter depth rating.

REMUS 600

The REMUS 600 is an autonomous underwater vehicle developed at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 2003, the basis of the U.S. Navy's Mk 18 Mod 2.

Remus Lupin

Remus John Lupin, Harry Potter character: werewolf, Gryffindor Marauder, Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher in Prisoner of Azkaban, member of both Orders of the Phoenix, husband of Nymphadora Tonks, father of Teddy; Rowling's metaphor for stigmatized illness.