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Roseires Dam

The Roseires Dam, also written Er Roseires Dam, is a dam on the Blue Nile in Sudan, built from 1961 to 1966 for irrigation and 280 MW hydropower.

Roseman Covered Bridge

Roseman Covered Bridge is a historic 1883 timber covered bridge over the Middle River near Winterset, Iowa, one of six surviving covered bridges in Madison County.

Rosenberger

Rosenberger, formally Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik GmbH & Co. KG, is a German family-owned maker of high-frequency, high-voltage, and fiber-optic connectors, founded by Hans Rosenberger in 1958 and headquartered in Fridolfing, Upper Bavaria.

Rosendin Electric

Rosendin Electric is an American electrical contractor founded in 1919 in San Jose, California, employee-owned since 1992, known for data center, utility-scale solar, and battery storage construction.

Rosenergoatom

Rosenergoatom (Росэнергоатом) is the Russian state-owned joint-stock company that operates all of Russia's civilian nuclear power plants. It was established in 1992 as part of Rosatom.

Rosenheim Mansion

Rosenheim Mansion, the AHS "Murder House," is Alfred F. Rosenheim's 1908 brick Tudor Revival home at 1120 S. Westchester Place, Country Club Park, Los Angeles; LA HCM No. 660 (1999), former Sisters of Social Service convent, sold 2015 for $3.2 million.

Roseton generating facility

Roseton Generating Facility, also called Roseton Generating Station, is a 1,242-megawatt dual-fuel steam-electric power station on the west bank of the Hudson River in Newburgh, New York, operating since 1974.

Rosetta (software)

Rosetta is a binary translation layer from Apple, announced in 2020, that lets Macs with Apple silicon run Intel applications; macOS 27 is the last release to support it.

Rosetta (spacecraft)

Rosetta was a European Space Agency spacecraft, launched in 2004, that in 2014 became the first mission to orbit comet 67P and deploy the Philae lander onto its surface.

Rosetta 2

Rosetta 2 is Apple's translation process that runs Intel-based Mac apps on Apple silicon Macs, translating x86_64 instructions ahead of time, with support ending after macOS 27.

Rosetta Oil and Gas Field

Rosetta Oil and Gas Field is a natural gas field offshore the Nile Delta, Egypt, discovered in 1997, producing from January 2001 into Egypt's domestic market, and now depleted.

RoseTTAFold

RoseTTAFold is a deep learning tool that predicts the 3D structure of proteins from amino acid sequences, developed in David Baker's lab at the University of Washington in 2021.

Rosewood

Rosewood, also known as palisander, is a trade name for dense, fragrant, dark red tropical timbers chiefly from Dalbergia trees, prized for fine furniture and guitar fretboards.

Rosewood Hong Kong

Rosewood Hong Kong (香港瑰丽酒店) is an ultra-luxury hotel that opened in 2019 in the Victoria Dockside district on Kowloon's Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront, Rosewood's first Hong Kong property.

Rosin sizing

Rosin sizing is an internal paper-sizing method that anchors rosin to paper fibers with alum to resist liquid penetration, first announced by Moritz Illig in 1807 and dominant for about 150 years.

Roskomnadzor

Roskomnadzor (Роскомнадзор), formally the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, is the Russian federal agency overseeing media and communications, established in 2008.

Rösler Oberflächentechnik

Rösler Oberflächentechnik is a German family-owned manufacturer of surface finishing equipment based in Untermerzbach, Bavaria, founded in 1933 and producing mass finishing and shot blasting machines.

Roslyn (compiler)

Roslyn, formally the .NET Compiler Platform, is Microsoft's open-source compiler platform for C# and Visual Basic, opened in 2014 and powering Visual Studio, the dotnet CLI, and Mono.

Rosneft (Роснефть)

Rosneft (Роснефть), formally PJSC Rosneft Oil Company, is a Russian state-controlled oil and gas company headquartered in Moscow, the country's largest oil producer, led by Igor Sechin since 2012.

Rosoboronexport

Rosoboronexport (Рособоронэкспорт) is Russia's state-owned arms export monopoly, created in 2000 by merging Rosvooruzheniye and Promexport and handling about 90 percent of Russian arms exports.

Ross A. Hatton

Ross A. Hatton is a physical chemist and professor at the University of Warwick who researches transparent electrodes for organic and tin perovskite solar cells.

Ross B. Corotis

Ross B. Corotis is an American civil and structural engineer at the University of Colorado Boulder, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002 for reliability methods.

Ross Dam

Ross Dam is a 540-foot concrete arch dam on the Skagit River in Whatcom County, Washington, built between 1937 and 1949 and operated by Seattle City Light.

Ross E. McKinney

Ross E. McKinney was an American environmental engineer, a National Academy of Engineering member called the "Father of Activated Sludge" for quantifying wastewater treatment microbiology.

Ross Girshick

Ross Girshick is a computer vision and machine learning researcher known for the R-CNN family and Mask R-CNN, and now a member of technical staff at Anthropic.

Ross J. Anderson

Ross J. Anderson (1956–2024) was a British computer scientist and cryptographer, Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge, a designer of the block cipher Serpent, and a founder of security economics.

Ross rifle

The Ross rifle was a Canadian straight-pull bolt-action rifle in .303 caliber, produced from 1903 to 1917 and replaced in front-line service by the Lee-Enfield in 1916.

Ross River Dam

Ross River Dam is an earth and rock fill dam on the Ross River near Townsville, Queensland, completed in 1970 for flood control and water supply.

Ross Scott

Ross Scott, also known as Ross William Scott, is an American machinima creator and consumer-rights campaigner who created Freeman's Mind and founded Stop Killing Games in 2024.

Ross William Boulanger

Ross William Boulanger is an American geotechnical earthquake engineer and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.