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Renpet Mons
Renpet Mons is a large shield volcano on Venus at 76°N, 236.2°E on the edge of Snegurochka Planitia; about 138 km across with lava flows extending to roughly 400 km, it rises about 2 km and is named for an Egyptian goddess.
Renqiu oil field
The Renqiu oil field is a giant buried-hill oil field in Hebei Province, China, discovered in 1975 in the Jizhong subbasin, the first Precambrian reservoir found in China.
Renqiu-Beijing Oil Pipeline
The Renqiu-Beijing Oil Pipeline (任京输油管道) is a crude oil pipeline in North China, built in 1976 to carry oil from the Renqiu oilfield to Beijing refineries.
Renren Jucai
Renren Jucai (人人聚财) was a Chinese peer-to-peer lending platform founded by Xu Jianwen in Shenzhen in 2011, known for car-title loans before its supervised exit in 2020.
Renrenche (人人车)
Renrenche was a Chinese C2C used-car platform founded in April 2014 in Beijing by former Baidu executive Li Jian, backed by Tencent, Didi Chuxing, and Goldman Sachs.
Renrendai
Renrendai (人人贷) was a Beijing-based peer-to-peer lending platform founded in 2010 by Zhang Shishi, Li Xinhe, and Yang Yifu, one of China's largest until the P2P sector was shut down in 2020.
RenrenYouXin Group
RenrenYouXin Group (人人友信集团) is a Beijing-based Chinese financial group founded by Li Xinhe, Zhang Shishi, and Yang Yifu, best known for the P2P lending platform Renrendai.
Renseneb
Renseneb, written rn(.i)-snb(w), was a king of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty attested on the Turin King List and a glazed steatite bead, with a four-month reign around 1777 BC.
Renshaw cell
Renshaw cell: spinal inhibitory interneuron (named for Birdsey Renshaw, 1941) in the ventral horn's lamina VII/IX; excited cholinergically by α-motoneuron collaterals, it inhibits motoneurons glycinergically, mediating recurrent inhibition.
Renshou Palace incident
The Renshou Palace incident (仁寿宫变) was a palace coup at the end of the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui, who died at Renshou Palace in 604.
Rensis Likert
Rensis Likert (1903–1981) was an American social psychologist who invented the Likert scale for measuring attitudes and co-founded the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research.
Renso L. Caporali
Renso L. Caporali is an American aerospace engineer who was a key member of the F-14 Tomcat design team and led Grumman as chairman and CEO from 1990 to 1994.
Rensselaer County
Rensselaer County, New York: Capital Region county founded 1791 from Albany County, county seat Troy, area 665 sq mi, population 161,130 (2020), 19-member legislature, Tech Valley economy.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), founded 1824 in Troy, New York by Stephen Van Rensselaer with Amos Eaton, is the first U.S. technological research university, enrolling about 7,000 students across five schools.
Rent (film)
Rent (2005) is Chris Columbus's film adaptation of Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer- and Tony-winning rock musical, itself based on Puccini's La bohème, set in AIDS-era East Village; it reunited six of eight original Broadway cast members but earned mixed reviews (46% Tomatometer, Metascore 53).
Rent (musical)
Rent is a rock musical by Jonathan Larson, loosely based on Puccini's La Bohème. It premiered in 1996 and ran for 17 years, becoming a Broadway phenomenon.
Rent and Household Tax Edict of Jian'an 9
The Rent and Household Tax Edict of Jian'an 9 (建安九年租調令) was a tax decree issued by Cao Cao in 204, fixing land rent at four sheng of grain per mu.
Rent Is Too Damn High Party
Rent Is Too Damn High Party (Rent Is 2 Damn High), a single-issue New York political party founded by Jimmy McMillan, known for his viral 2010 gubernatorial debate slogan and ballot-name lawsuits.
Rent regulation
Rent regulation, also called rent control or rent stabilization, is the body of laws limiting residential rents and often the conditions for ending tenancies, in force since the First World War.
Rent-a-Cop
Rent-a-Cop: 1987 American action comedy thriller directed by Jerry London, starring Burt Reynolds and Liza Minnelli; a disgraced Chicago cop turned security guard hunts a masked killer. Also a 2015 BBC Three documentary and a 2026 film.
Rent-A-Girlfriend (TV series)
Rent-A-Girlfriend (Kanojo, Okarishimasu) is a TMS Entertainment anime adapting Reiji Miyajima's Weekly Shonen Magazine manga; five seasons since July 2020, following Kazuya and rented girlfriend Chizuru, commercially successful despite divided reviews.
Rent-A-Girlfriend (彼女、お借りします)
Rent-A-Girlfriend (Kanojo, Okarishimasu, 彼女、お借りします) is Reiji Miyajima's Weekly Shonen Magazine romantic comedy since 2017 about dumped student Kazuya and rental girlfriend Chizuru; over 13 million copies, five anime seasons, and a 2022 live-action drama.
Rent-A-Girlfriend season 5
Rent-A-Girlfriend season 5 (彼女、お借りします 第5期), the 2026 second cour of season 4 of Reiji Miyajima's romcom anime, covering the Hawaiians arc; TMS Entertainment, Koga directing, 12 episodes, MAL 6.33.
Rent-seeking
Rent-seeking, also called rent-seeking behavior, is the socially costly pursuit of government-created wealth transfers; Gordon Tullock originated the idea in 1967 and Anne Krueger named it in 1974.
Rent-to-own
Rent-to-own, or rental-purchase, is a contract letting consumers lease goods or homes and buy them later; goods terms run up to 18 months with no credit checks, housing deals set a future sale price, with option fees of 1%-7%.
Rent: Live
Rent: Live is a 2019 Fox television adaptation of Jonathan Larson's Broadway musical Rent, broadcast January 27, 2019, mostly from prerecorded dress-rehearsal footage after an injury.
Rent2Cash
Rent2Cash is a Rome-based Italian fintech and proptech startup, founded in 2024, that buys lease credits so landlords get immediate liquidity while it collects future rents.
Rentaghost
Rentaghost: British BBC1 children's sitcom (1976–1984, 58 episodes, 9 series) by Bob Block about dead Fred Mumford's agency hiring out ghosts; referenced in Being Human, remake licensed in 2008.
Rental agreement
A rental agreement is a written or oral contract granting a tenant the right to occupy property for short periods, typically month to month, in exchange for rent.
Rental Family
Rental Family (レンタル・ファミリー) is a 2025 Searchlight Pictures comedy-drama directed by Hikari, starring Brendan Fraser as an American actor in Tokyo hired by a rental family agency, inspired by real Japanese companion services; released November 21, 2025.