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Request for quotation
Request for quotation (RFQ): a procurement document asking suppliers for prices against fully specified requirements, used for low-risk, price-based buying under FAR Part 13, World Bank, and South African rules, distinct from RFI and RFP.
Request to send / clear to send
Request to send / clear to send (RTS/CTS) is an IEEE 802.11 handshake that reserves the wireless channel before a data exchange and mitigates hidden terminals.
Requiem
A Requiem, also called a Mass for the departed, is the Catholic Mass for the dead of the Roman Rite, named for its opening chant, "Requiem aeternam."
Requiem (2006 film)
Requiem (2006 film): German drama by Hans-Christian Schmid starring Sandra Hüller as epileptic student Michaela Klingler, inspired by the 1976 Anneliese Michel exorcism death; Silver Bear winner at Berlinale 2006, distinct from The Exorcism of Emily Rose.
Requiem (Fauré)
Fauré's Requiem in D minor, Op. 48 (Requiem en ré mineur), a French choral-orchestral Mass for the dead composed 1887–1900, premiered 1888 at the Madeleine, published in symphonic version 1901, omitting the Dies irae.
Requiem (Lloyd Webber)
Requiem (Andrew Lloyd Webber) is a 1985 Latin Requiem Mass setting premiered at St. Thomas Church, New York, conducted by Lorin Maazel; it won the 1986 Grammy for Best Contemporary Composition and spawned the hit Pie Jesu.
Requiem (Mozart)
Mozart's Requiem (K. 626, Requiem in D minor): unfinished 1791 mass for soloists, chorus, and dark-voiced orchestra, completed 1792 by Süssmayr after Eybler withdrew; commissioned anonymously by Count Walsegg to memorialize his wife.
Requiem (TV series)
Requiem (2018 BBC One/Netflix series), created by Kris Mrksa, directed by Mahalia Belo, starring Lydia Wilson: a six-part psychological thriller about a London cellist investigating a 1994 Welsh toddler disappearance.
Requiem (Verdi)
Verdi's Messa da Requiem (1874), a funeral mass for four soloists, double chorus, and orchestra in memory of Alessandro Manzoni, premiered 22 May 1874 at San Marco, Milan; grew from his 1869 Libera me for the Rossini collaborative Requiem.
Requiem for a Dream
Requiem for a Dream, Darren Aronofsky's 2000 drama adapted from Hubert Selby Jr.'s novel, follows four Brooklyn characters into addiction. Known for hip-hop montage editing, an NC-17 controversy, and Ellen Burstyn's Oscar-nominated performance.
Requiem for a Dream (novel)
Requiem for a Dream, Hubert Selby Jr.'s 1978 novel (Rekviem za sen, Réquiem por un sueño), follows Sara Goldfarb, her son Harry, Marion, and Tyrone as dreams of TV fame and heroin wealth collapse into addiction; adapted faithfully by Darren Aronofsky in 2000.
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Requiem for a Heavyweight: 1962 American boxing drama directed by Ralph Nelson, written by Rod Serling from his 1956 Playhouse 90 teleplay, starring Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris, and Muhammad Ali as Cassius Clay.
Requiem shark
Requiem sharks (Carcharhinidae) are a family of about 50 live-bearing sharks, including the tiger, bull, and blue sharks, found worldwide in warm seas and responsible for about half of reported shark attacks.
Required navigation performance
Required navigation performance (RNP) is an aviation navigation specification requiring an aircraft to maintain a stated lateral accuracy and alert the crew when it is not met.
Requirement
A requirement is a condition or capability a user needs to solve a problem, or one a system must meet; software engineering handles them through requirements engineering.
Requirements analysis
Requirements analysis, also called software requirements analysis, is the requirements engineering activity that examines and refines candidate requirements for correctness, consistency, completeness, and verifiability before design.
Requirements elicitation
Requirements elicitation is the first activity of requirements engineering, in which developers gather what a system must do from stakeholders, using techniques such as interviews and prototyping.
Requirements engineering
Requirements engineering (RE) is the process of defining, documenting, and maintaining requirements, the goals, functions, and constraints a system must meet, through elicitation, analysis, specification, and validation.
Requirements management
Requirements management is the discipline of recording, organizing, tracking, and controlling system or software requirements throughout development, so specifications stay complete and aligned with stakeholder needs.
ReRAM
ReRAM (resistive random access memory, also RRAM) is a non-volatile memory that stores data as electrical resistance, switched by voltage pulses, and offers lower power and higher speed than flash.
Rerir Montes
Rerir Montes is a 370-km mountain range on Titan at 4.8°S, 212.1°W, IAU-approved December 5, 2011 and named after Mount Rerir from Tolkien's Middle-earth; third longest of Titan's 16 named montes.
Rerum novarum
Rerum novarum ("Of new things"), subtitled Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor, is Pope Leo XIII's May 15, 1891 encyclical founding modern Catholic social teaching: it defends private property, rejects socialism, and affirms unions, just wages, and limited state regulation of labor.
Rerun
A rerun (or repeat) is a rebroadcast of a television or radio program that has already aired after its first transmission, underpinning U.S. syndication economics since the 1950s.
Rerun Van Pelt
Rerun Van Pelt is the youngest Van Pelt sibling in Peanuts, born into the strip 1972, first appearing March 26, 1973, a bicycle-riding minor character who became a kindergarten-age lead in the strip's final 1990s years.
RES 3945
RES 3945, the Karib'il Watar res gestae inscription, is a monumental Sabaic text recording eight campaigns of Saba's expansion in the early 7th century BC.
Res Gestae Divi Saporis
Res Gestae Divi Saporis, also known as ShKZ, is a trilingual inscription carved at Naqsh-e Rostam recording Shapur I's wars against Rome and his capture of Emperor Valerian.
Res ipsa loquitur
Res ipsa loquitur, Latin for "the thing speaks for itself," is a tort-law evidence doctrine from Byrne v Boadle (1863) letting plaintiffs infer negligence when an accident of a type that ordinarily signals negligence occurs under the defendant's control.
Res Jost
Res Jost (1918–1990) was a Swiss theoretical physicist at ETH Zurich known for the Jost function and the first axiomatic proof of the CPT theorem.
Res judicata
Res judicata, also known as claim preclusion, is the legal doctrine that a decided claim cannot be litigated again after a final judgment on the merits.
Res publica
Res publica, Latin for "the public thing," is the Roman term for the commonwealth or state and the root of "republic"; it denoted common civic affairs versus res privata, was denied as a hollow name by Caesar, and became the emperor's res privata.