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Rag paper
Rag paper is a strong, long-lasting paper made from cotton and linen fibers instead of wood pulp, used for banknotes, certificates, archival records, and fine-art sheets.
RAG poisoning
RAG poisoning, also called knowledge-base poisoning, is an attack in which malicious text is injected into a RAG system's knowledge base to steer its answers.
Rag-and-bone man
Rag-and-bone man, also called totter or bone-picker: an itinerant collector of rags, bones, and scrap, a precursor of modern recycling in Britain from the Middle Ages, declined by the 1980s, revived as van-based scrap collecting.
Rag-e Sefid Oil Field
Rag-e Sefid, also written Rag Sefid, is an onshore oil and gas field in Khuzestan province, southwest Iran, producing since 1966 with reserves of 2.4 billion barrels.
Rag'n'Bone Man
Rag'n'Bone Man, real name Rory Charles Graham (born 1985), is a British baritone singer blending soul, blues, and hip-hop. Known for the 2016 hit "Human", the fastest-selling 2010s debut album by a British male, BRIT Awards, and "Giant" with Calvin Harris.
Raga (राग)
Raga (राग, raag, ragam) is the melodic framework of Hindustani and Carnatic classical music: rules for notes, ascent and descent, vadi emphasis, pakad phrases, mood, and time of day, classified by 10 thaats or 72 melakartas.
Ragaglitazar
Ragaglitazar, (−) DRF 2725, NNC 61-0029, a dual PPARα/γ agonist for type 2 diabetes from Dr. Reddy's and Novo Nordisk; effective on glucose and lipids but discontinued in 2003 over rat urothelial tumors.
Ragahv Chaitanya
Raghav Chaitanya is an Indian playback singer and songwriter from Meerut who won the Filmfare Award for Best Playback Singer for his debut song "Ek Tukda Dhoop" in Thappad (2020).
Ragale
Ragale (ರಗಳೆ) is a Kannada verse meter counted in matras, with three varieties (utsaha, mandānila, and lalita). The 12th-century poet Harihara made it his principal meter.
Ragamala painting
Ragamala painting (रागमाला, "garland of ragas") is a genre of Indian miniature painting in which each picture visualizes a raga of Indian classical music, first identified in the fifteenth century.
Ragamuffin cat
Ragamuffin (RagaMuffin) cat: a longhaired pedigree breed created in the early 1990s by breeders leaving Ann Baker's Ragdoll registry, outcrossed to domestic longhairs; any color except pointed, males up to 20 pounds, CFA championship 2011.
Ragan Smith
Ragan Smith, American artistic gymnast from Lewisville, Texas; 2017 US all-around, beam and floor champion, 2016 Olympic alternate, Oklahoma NCAA champion with 11 beam perfect 10s, now Iowa State assistant coach.
Ragana Dorsa
Ragana Dorsa is a 950-km-long dorsum (ridge system) on Venus at 69°S, 246°E, in quadrangle V-60, named for the Latvian witch Ragana and adopted by the IAU in 1997 from a list by George Burba.
Ragando
Ragando (Ragandone, Ragundone, Ragindone) was a Roman road station in Noricum between Celeia and Poetovio, located near Spodnje Grušovje, Slovenia; attested in the Tabula Peutingeriana and other itineraries.
Ragang
Ragang (Piapayungan), volcano number 271060, is a 2,790 m basaltic stratovolcano southeast of Lake Lanao in central Mindanao, Philippines, the island's most frequently active volcano, with 8 confirmed eruptions since 1765 and a last eruption in 1916.
Rāgarāja (愛染明王)
Rāgarāja (愛染明王), Japanese Aizen Myōō, is a wrathful wisdom king of East Asian esoteric Buddhism governing love and desire, depicted with red skin, three eyes, and six arms.
RAGAS
RAGAS (Retrieval Augmented Generation Assessment) is an open-source Python framework for evaluating RAG pipelines, introduced in September 2023 with reference-free metrics like faithfulness scored by an LLM judge.
Ragay Gulf
Ragay Gulf: deep triangular embayment in southeastern Luzon, Philippines, between Quezon and Camarines Sur provinces; about 3,900 km2, 600 m deep, on the Philippine Fault, a Key Biodiversity Area and major fishing ground.
RAGBRAI
RAGBRAI (Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa) is a seven-day noncompetitive bike tour across Iowa, held the last full week of July since 1973; founded by John Karras and Don Kaul, it is the world's oldest and largest multi-day recreational ride.
Ragdoll
Ragdoll cat breed: large semi-longhaired blue-eyed colorpoint cat developed by Ann Baker in 1960s Riverside, California, from Josephine; docile lap-cat temperament; MYBPC3 R820W HCM risk; CFA's most popular breed.
Ragdoll physics
Ragdoll physics, also called ragdoll simulation, is a game technique where a character's body is simulated as jointed rigid bodies that collapse and tumble instead of playing fixed animations.
Rage
Rage (Furia) is a Spanish dark comedy-drama series created, written, and directed by Félix Sabroso for HBO Max, premiering July 11, 2025. It follows five women whose intertwined conflicts escalate like a butterfly effect; renewed for a second season premiering October 9, 2026 with Maribel Verdú joining.
Rage (2014 film)
Rage, also titled Tokarev, is a 2014 Paco Cabezas revenge thriller starring Nicolas Cage as a reformed criminal whose daughter is kidnapped and killed; it received a 28 Metascore and 13% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Rage (2016 film)
Rage (怒り, Ikari) is Lee Sang-il's 2016 Japanese drama-mystery adapted from Yoshida Shuichi's novel: a plastic-surgery-altered murderer and three suspects in Chiba, Tokyo, and Okinawa, starring Ken Watanabe, with music by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Rage (emotion)
Rage: intense, violent, often uncontrolled anger at the explosive end of the anger continuum, spanning impulsive outbursts and planned aggression; studied via limbic-prefrontal circuits, DSM-5-TR disorders, and regulation research.
Rage (King novel)
Rage, first written as Getting It On, is a 1977 Stephen King novel published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, in which student Charlie Decker holds his algebra class hostage.
Rage (video game)
Rage (2011) is id Software's post-apocalyptic first-person shooter, published by Bethesda, built on id Tech 5 with megatexture technology; released October 3, 2011 on PC, Mac, PS3, Xbox 360; Metacritic 81; sequel Rage 2 in 2019.
Rage 2
Rage 2 (RAGE 2) is a 2019 open-world first-person shooter by Avalanche Studios with id Software, published by Bethesda, sequel to 2011's Rage; released May 14, 2019 on PC, PS4, Xbox One, praised for combat, criticized for its barren open world.
Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine, RATM, American rap-metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1991 by Zack de la Rocha, Tom Morello, Tim Commerford, and Brad Wilk; three politically charged studio albums plus Renegades (2000), 2023 Rock Hall induction, final live retirement announced 2024.
Rage Against the Machine (album)
Rage Against the Machine is the 1992 debut album by the American rock band of the same name, blending rap vocals, heavy metal riffs, and political lyrics.