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RRR

RRR (Roudram Ranam Rudhiram; Rise Roar Revolt) is S.S. Rajamouli's 2022 Telugu epic starring Jr NTR and Ram Charan as revolutionaries Komaram Bheem and Alluri Sitarama Raju; its song Naatu Naatu won the first Oscar for an Indian feature film.

RRS Discovery (1962)

RRS Discovery was a British Royal Research Ship, the third of four of the name, built in Aberdeen in 1962 for the National Institute of Oceanography and serving until 2012.

RRS James Cook

RRS James Cook is a British multidisciplinary oceanographic research vessel built in Norway in 2006, owned by NERC, and operated by the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton since 2007.

RRS Sir David Attenborough

RRS Sir David Attenborough is a British polar research and supply ship of the British Antarctic Survey, delivered in 2020 after a naming poll won by "Boaty McBoatface".

RS Canum Venaticorum

RS Canum Venaticorum variables, also called RS CVn variables, are close binary star systems whose tidally locked components show large magnetic starspots, strong chromospheric activity, and flares far larger than the Sun's.

RS Canum Venaticorum variable

An RS Canum Venaticorum variable is a magnetically active detached binary star with large cool starspots, named after its prototype RS CVn, discovered in 1914.

Rs Global Energy & Power Private Investors

RS Global Energy & Power Private Investors is a series of private equity funds for private investors, administered by J.P. Morgan, that raised over $1 billion for energy and power investments.

RS Group

RS Group is a British distributor of industrial and electronic products, founded in 1937 as Radiospares and serving over one million customers in more than 80 countries.

RS Ophiuchi

RS Ophiuchi is a recurrent nova in the constellation Ophiuchus, a binary of a massive white dwarf accreting from a red giant that erupts roughly every 15 years.

RS-232

RS-232 is a serial interface standard for connecting data terminal equipment to modems and peripherals, developed by the Electronic Industries Alliance in the early 1960s.

RS-24 Yars (РС-24 Ярс)

The RS-24 Yars (РС-24 Ярс) is a Russian three-stage solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile carrying MIRV warheads, fielded in road-mobile and silo versions since 2010 as the mainstay of Russia's land-based strategic force.

RS-25

The RS-25, or Space Shuttle Main Engine, is a reusable liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen rocket engine that powered the Space Shuttle from 1981 to 2011.

RS-26 Rubezh (РС-26 Рубеж)

The RS-26 Rubezh (РС-26 Рубеж; NATO name SS-X-31) is a Russian solid-fueled, road-mobile ballistic missile derived from the RS-24 Yars, tested from 2011 and shelved in 2018.

RS-28 Sarmat (РС-28 Сармат)

The RS-28 Sarmat (РС-28 Сармат), nicknamed "Satan II" in Western media, is a Russian heavy liquid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missile built by the Makeyev bureau to replace the SS-18 Satan.

RS-422

RS-422, formally ANSI/TIA/EIA-422-B, is a standard specifying the electrical characteristics of balanced differential voltage digital signaling circuits for serial data transmission over long or noisy links.

RS-485

RS-485, standardized as TIA/EIA-485-A, is a standard for balanced digital multipoint communication over twisted-pair cable, allowing multiple drivers and receivers on a shared two-wire bus.

RS-68

The RS-68 is a liquid-fueled booster rocket engine developed by Rocketdyne, utilized for the first stage of the Delta IV launch vehicle, achieving over 650,000 pounds of thrust.

RS4;11

RS4;11 (RS4-11, CVCL_0093) is a human B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia cell line from a 32-year-old woman, carrying the t(4;11)(q21;q23) KMT2A-AFF1 fusion and showing B lineage and monocytic characteristics.

RSA cryptosystem

RSA cryptosystem, also called Rivest-Shamir-Adleman or RSA encryption, is a public-key cryptosystem described by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman at MIT in 1977 and used for digital signatures and key establishment.

RSA Factoring Challenge

The RSA Factoring Challenge, also known as the RSA Challenge, was a competition run by RSA Laboratories from 1991 to 2007 offering cash prizes for factoring large numbers.

RSA numbers

RSA numbers: large semiprimes (RSA-100 to RSA-2048) published by RSA Laboratories' 1991–2007 Factoring Challenge for cash prizes up to $200,000; factored via GNFS up to RSA-250 (2020), with RSA-896 and above unfactored.

RSA SecurID

RSA SecurID is a multi-factor authentication product, originally a hardware token generating a one-time password every 60 seconds that users combine with a secret PIN to log in.

RSA Security

RSA Security, formerly RSA Data Security, is an American cybersecurity company founded in 1982 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman, inventors of the RSA encryption algorithm.

ŘSD

ŘSD (Ředitelství silnic a dálnic), the Road and Motorway Directorate, is a Czech state enterprise under the Ministry of Transport that manages, builds, and maintains motorways and class I roads.

RSD-10 Pioneer

The RSD-10 Pioneer (NATO: SS-20 Saber) was a Soviet road-mobile intermediate-range ballistic missile with a 5,000 km range, deployed from 1976 and central to the Cold War Euromissiles crisis.

RSD-2, N-terminal

RSD-2, N-terminal: the N-terminal region of RSD-2, a motif-less Caenorhabditis elegans protein required for systemic RNAi that interacts with Tudor-domain protein RSD-6 and lacks close homologs outside nematodes.

RSEnTrail trial

RSEnTrail (NCT07616310) is a recruiting randomized non-inferiority trial from Zhejiang University comparing rectosigmoid resection versus rectosigmoid-preserving lesion excision in pelvic cytoreductive surgery for advanced ovarian cancer.

RSFSR Criminal Code of 1926

The RSFSR Criminal Code of 1926 (Уголовный кодекс РСФСР 1926 года) was the criminal code of the Russian SFSR, adopted on 22 November 1926 and in force from 1927.

RSG-GAS

RSG-GAS (Reaktor Serba Guna G.A. Siwabessy) is a 30 MW multipurpose pool-type research reactor at Serpong, South Tangerang, Indonesia, and the country's largest, used for radioisotope production and neutron beam research.

RSGC1-F01

RSGC1-F01, also written RSGC1-01, is a red supergiant star in the cluster RSGC1 in Scutum, about 22,000 light-years away, and ranks among the largest known stars.