ExpertGlossary terms starting with R

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resection (ree-SEK-shun) A procedure that uses surgery to remove tissue or part or all of an organ.
resectoscope (reh-SEK-toh-skope) A thin, tube-like instrument used to remove tissue from inside the body. A resectoscope has a light and lens for viewing.
reseller Any access customer who resells the access service obtained from an exchange carrier. [T1.251-1996]
reservation A collection of EC2 instances started as part of the same launch request.
Reservations Lands acquired for use by the Federal Government after the original founding of the city. There are presently more than 750 US Reservations in DC.
reserve capacity Installed capacity of a system which is not normally utilized but can be made available when required.
Reserve generating capacity Extra generating capacity available to meet unanticipated capacity demand for power in the event of generation loss due to scheduled or unscheduled…
reserve keying material Key held to satisfy unplanned needs. [INFOSEC-99]
Reserve margin The percentage of installed capacity exceeding the expected peak demand during a specified period.
Reserve requirement The Federal Reserve requires its member banks to keep a certain percentage of their customer deposits in cash and other liquid assets in reserve at all…
Reserved For purposes of the National System of MPAs, must be established by and currently subject to federal, state, commonwealth, territorial, local, or tribal…
reserved circuit service In ISDN applications, a telecommunications service that establishes a communication path at a preset time (requested by the user) in response to a…
Reserved Instance A purchase option which allows users to minimize cost by purchasing instances in bulk ahead of time.
Reserved Numbers Reserved numbers are numbers that are held by service providers at the request of specific end users or customers for their future use.
Reserved Water Right A special water right accompanying federal lands (military reservations, national parks, forests, or monuments) or Indian reservations.
reserved word A word reserved for a particular purpose in Java, such as class, int, public, etc. Such words may not be used as ordinary identifiers.
reserved words A word with a specific, built-in meaning to a "compiler", such as if or delete.
Reserved works Facilities operated and maintained by Reclamation.
Reservoir A reservoir of an infectious agent, such as a virus, is any animal, person, plant, soil, substance—or combination of any of these — in which the…
Reservoir Area The surface area of a reservoir when filled to normal water level.
Reservoir capacity The capacity of the reservoir, usually in acre-feet. Dam design and reservoir operation utilize reservoir capacity and water surface elevation data.
Reservoir capacity allocations (RCA) sheet A summary of acre-feet allocations of water, to such purposes as surcharge, exclusive flood control capacity, joint use capacity, active conservation…
Reservoir inflow The amount of water entering a reservoir expressed in acre-feet per day or cubic feet per second.
Reservoir regulation (or operating) procedure Operating procedures that govern reservoir storage and releases.
Reservoir Surface The surface of a reservoir at any level.
Reservoir Surface Area The area covered by a reservoir when filled to a specified level.
Reservoir Volume The volume of a reservoir when filled to normal pool or water level.
reset mode The parameters initially programmed for basic operation.
resettability A measure of the ability to duplicate controllable conditions. Note: An example of resettability is the ability to reset the frequency controls of radio…
Residence Address The street address and any apartment number, or the address at which mail is received if the residence has no address, and the city, state, and zip code…
Residence Time The average time spent in a reservoir by an individual atom or molecule. With respect to greenhouse gases, residence time usually refers to how long a…
resident Pertaining to computer programs that remain on a particular storage device.
Resident fish Fish species that complete their entire life cycle in freshwater. Non-anadromous fish. An example is rainbow trout.
Resident Space Object (RSO) The Cheyenne Mountain Complex maintains object, which is currently on-orbit and whose element set parameters. 248
Residential Awning Any awning on a residential building and any awning on a commercial or mixed-use building except for storefront awnings.
Residential Condominium Building Association Policy (RCBAP) Policy issued to insure a residential condominium building and all units within the building, provided that the building is located in a Regular Program…
Residential fixed investment Consists of purchases of private residential structures and residential equipment that is owned by landlords and rented to tenants.
Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) A type of Mortgage-Backed Security backed by residential mortgage loans.
Residential sector An area or portion consisting only of housing units.
residential server The Exchange server that contains a user's mailbox.
Residential Site Improvement Standards (RSIS) Development rules (disseminated by DCA) that delineate infrastructure requirements for new residential areas.
Residential structures Investment in residential structures consists of new construction of permanent-site single-family and multi-family units, improvements (additions…
Residual Data Data that is not currently live on the computer system, including data found in file slack space, data found on media free space, and data from deleted…
residual disease Cancer cells that remain after attempts to remove the cancer have been made.
residual error rate Synonym undetected error ratio.
residual error ratio The ratio of (a) the number of bits, unit elements, characters, or blocks incorrectly received but undetected or uncorrected by the error-control…
Residual fuel oil Heavy fuel oil produced from the residue in the fractional distillation process rather than from the distilled fractions. No.
Residual Haunting Repetitive paranormal activity resulting from the energy imprint of a person or event in time.
Residual insecticide spraying See indoor residual spraying.
Residual Interest Interest that continues to accrue on your credit card balance from the statement cycle date until the bank receives your payment.
Residual Layer the elevated portion of a convective boundary layer that remains after a stable boundary layer develops at the ground (usually in late afternoon or early…
Residual market Insurers, such as assigned risk plans and the Texas FAIR Plan, that exist to provide coverage for those who cannot get it in the standard market.
residual modulation Synonym carrier noise level.
Residual Moisture Atmospheric moisture which lingers over an area after the main weather system has departed.
Residual Risk The remaining, potential risk after all IT security measures are applied. There is a residual risk associated with each threat.
residue 1. See: polymer. 2. Materials remaining after degradation and/or attempted removal, e.g. pesticide residues in food.
residues, biomass Byproducts from processing all forms of biomass that have significant energy potential.
Residuum Unconsolidated, weathered, or partly weathered mineral material that accumulates by disintegration of bedrock in place.
Resign to Run Provision (Article XVI, Section 65, Texas Constitution) Applies to municipal officers whose terms are longer than 2 years and to District Clerks, County Clerks, County Judges, Judges of the County Courts at…
Resilience Ability of any system to resist or to recover from stress or hardship.
resiquimod (reh-SIH-kwih-mod) A substance being studied in the treatment of some types of skin cancer.
Resistance The ability of an organism to develop ways to be impervious to specific threats to their existence.
resistance factor A plasmid that confers antibiotic resistance to a bacterium.
Resistance Heating A type of heating system that provides heat from the resistance of an electrical current flowing through a conductor.
resistance hybrid A network of resistors to which four branches of a circuit may be connected to make them conjugate in pairs.
Resistance management Strategies that can delay the onset of resistance. For insect resistance management, this includes the use of a refuge in which the insect will not be…
resistant cancer Cancer that does not respond to treatment. The cancer may be resistant at the beginning of treatment, or it may become resistant during treatment.
Resistive Voltage Drop The voltage developed across a cell by the current flow through the resistance of the cell.
Resistor An electrical device that resists electric current flow.
RESOL Resolution.
Resolution See DPI.
resolver Computer software that allows user programs to interface with domain name servers. Note: The user program may be, for example, an FTP client. [2382-pt.35]
resolving power A measure of the ability of a lens or optical system to form separate and distinct images of two objects with small angular separation.
resonance The state of a system in which an abnormally large vibration is produced in response to an external stimulus, occurring when the frequency of the stimulus…
resonant antenna Synonym periodic antenna.
resonant cavity See optical cavity.
resorption A process in which a substance, such as tissue, is lost by being destroyed and then absorbed by the body.
resource Data, metadata, a collection of data, or a collection of metadata accessed as a content item. Examples: a document, a database table, a content class.
resource account A single security principalâusually a user accountâthat is created in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and used to map to a single…
resource adapter A system-level software driver that is used by an EJB container or an application client to connect to an enterprise information system.
resource adapter module A deployable unit that contains all Java interfaces, classes, and native libraries, implementing a resource adapter along with the resource adapter…
Resource Allocation The Part A planning council responsibility to assign Ryan White HIV/AIDS Programt amounts or percentages to established priorities across specific service…
resource authority An authority recognized in a Security Domain as a trusted source of security information which relates to resources (security object) [ECMA138].
Resource Booking Attendant A calendaring feature that automatically manages resources. Resource requests are automatically accepted or denied depending on availability and policies.
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) The primary goals of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) are to protect human health and the environment from the potential hazards of waste…
resource controller (RC) The processor(s) that control access to satellite payload communications resources within an individual satellite program.
resource DLL A dynamic-link library (DLL) that contains instructions for managing one or more types of cluster resources in a failover cluster or server cluster.
resource federation server The federation server in the resource partner organization. The resource federation server typically issues security tokens to users based on a security…
resource federation server proxy The federation server proxy that is located in the perimeter network of the resource partner organization.
resource group In AD FS, a single security group, which is created in Active Directory, that incoming group claims (AD FS group claims from the account partner) are…
Resource Hosting Subsystem A cluster software component that provides a communication, monitoring, and processing layer between the Cluster service and one or more clustered…
Resource mailbox A mailbox that is associated with a resource instead of a user (such as a conference room for reservation purposes). In Exchange 5.
Resource Management Plan A written plan that addresses the existing resources of an area and provides future objectives, goals, and management direction.
Resource Management Plan (RMP) A land use plan that establishes land use allocations, multiple use guidelines, and management objectives for a given planning area.
resource manager Provides access to a set of shared resources. A resource manager participates in transactions that are externally controlled and coordinated by a…
resource manager connection An object that represents a session with a resource manager.
resource manager connection factory An object used for creating a resource manager connection.
Resource Monitor A component of Windows Reliability and Performance Monitor that displays real-time CPU, memory, disk, and network performance information collected from…
resource partner A federation partner that trusts the Federation Service to issue claims-based security tokens for Web-based applications (that is, applications in the…
resource properties A resource is composed of zero or more resource properties which describe the resource.