Room ambient conditionsThe temperature, humidity, and air quality of the surrounding conditions. Those conditions generally found in a library, resource, studio, or office…
room mailboxA room mailbox is a type of resource mailbox that is assigned to a meeting location such as a conference room, auditorium, or training room.
room presetIn multimedia and virtual reality, information that may be used to select a video source, and then control the video source to provide the desired view.
RoostAn area where birds or bats rest or sleep. Birds often use branches or tree cavities for roosts while bats use tree bark, tree hollows, caves, mines…
rootTo trap a target in place/stuck using a "root" type spell such as Entangling Roots.
root apexThe apical meristem of a root; very similar to the shoot apical meristem in that it forms the three meristematic areas: the protoderm (develops into the…
root capA mass of reinforced cells covering and protecting the apical meristem of a root.
Root Cause Analysisthe process of determining the underlying cause of a problem which might warrant corrective action.
Root Certification AuthorityIn a hierarchical Public Key Infrastructure, the Certification Authority whose public key serves as the most trusted datum (i.e.
root cultureThe culture of isolated apical or lateral root tips to produce in vitro root systems with indeterminate growth habits.
root cuttingCutting made from sections of roots alone.
root device volumeContains the image used to boot the instance. If you launched the instance from an AMI backed by instance store, this is an instance store volume created…
Root DirectoryThe top level in a hierarchical file system. For example on a PC, the root directory of your hard drive, usually C:, contains all the second-level…
root hairsOutgrowths from epidermal cell walls of the root, specialized for water and nutrient absorption.
Root mean square (RMS) errorA measure calculated when registering a map to a digitizer, indicating the discrepancy between known point locations and their digitized locations.
root noduleA small round mass of cells attached to the roots of leguminous plants, containing symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteroids, particularly Rhizobium spp.
root tuberThickened root that stores carbohydrates.
root volumeThe volume that a NetApp appliance first looks at when booting to obtain configuration information.
Root zoneThe volume of soil or growing medium containing the roots of a plant. In soil science, the depth of the soil profile in which roots are normally found.
root-mean-square (rms) deviationA single quantity, rms, characterizing a function, f(x), given by Note: The term "rms deviation" is also used in probability and statistics, where the…
root-mean-square (rms) pulse durationA special case of root-mean-square deviation where the independent variable is time and f(t) describes the pulse waveform.
Rooting reflex(ROO'-ting REE'-flex) a reflex in infants that causes the turning of the head to the nipple and opening of the mouth when the cheek is touched or stroked.
RootkitA set of tools used by an attacker after gaining root-level access to a host to conceal the attackers activities on the host and permit the attacker to…
rootstockThe trunk or root material to which buds or scions are inserted in grafting. See: stock.
Rope(Also "Rope Funnel") - a narrow, often contorted condensation funnel usually associated with the decaying stage of a tornado. See rope stage.
Rope CloudIn satellite meteorology, a narrow, rope-like band of clouds sometimes seen on satellite images along a front or other boundary.
rope lay conductorA conductor composed of a central core surrounded by one or more layers of helically wound groups of wires.
Rope StageThe dissipating stage of a tornado, characterized by thinning and shrinking of the condensation funnel into a rope (or rope funnel).
ropivacaine(roh-PIH-vuh-kayn) A drug used to control pain and to cause a temporary loss of feeling in one part of the body, during and after surgery.
ropivacaine hydrochloride(roh-PIH-vuh-kayn HY-droh-KLOR-ide) A drug used to control pain and to cause a temporary loss of feeling in one part of the body, during and after surgery.
ROSARemote Observing System Automation. A type of automated data transmitter used by NWS Cooperative Program observers.
RosetteA round floral ornament, usually carved or painted.
rosiglitazone(roh-sig-LIH-tuh-zone) The active ingredient in a drug that helps control the amount of glucose (sugar) in the blood and is being studied in the…
rosiglitazone maleate(roh-sig-LIH-tuh-zone MAY-lee-AYT) A drug that helps control the amount of glucose (sugar) in the blood and is being studied in the prevention and…
Rossby WavesA series of troughs and ridges on quasi-horizontal surfaces in the major belt of upper tropospheric westerlies.
Rotary CameraIn microfilming, the papers are read on the fly with a camera thats synchronized to the motion.
rotary dialA signaling mechanism--usually incorporated within a telephone set--that when rotated and released, generates dc pulses required for establishing a…
rotary huntingHunting in which all the numbers in the hunt group are selected in a prescribed order.
rotary shakerRotating apparatus with a platform on which liquid media or cultures can be continuously shaken.
rotary switchingIn telephone systems, an electro-mechanical switching method whereby the selecting mechanism consists of a rotating element using several groups of…
RotationThe number of years allotted to establish and grow a forest stand to maturity.
rotational position sensing[In magnetic media,] A technique used to locate a given sector, a desired track, and a specific record by continuous comparison of the read/write head…
RotenoneA natural substance extracted from the root of certain plants, which constricts blood vessels in a fish's gills and causes suffocation.
Roth 401(k)The Roth 401(k) retirement plan, which was introduced in 2006, allows you to make after-tax contributions to your account.
Roth 401(k) Savings PlanAfter-tax retirement savings plan offered through the South Carolina Deferred Compensation Program .
Roth IRAA Roth IRA is a variation on a traditional individual retirement account (IRA).
RotorAn electric generator consists of an armature and a field structure. The armature carries the wire loop, coil, or other windings in which the voltage is…
Rotor CloudA turbulent altocumulus cloud formation found in the lee of some mountain barriers when winds cross the barrier at high speed.
Rotten IceIce in an advanced stage of disintegration.
Rough SeasSea conditions associated with regionally defined wind thresholds over bays, inlets, harbors, inland waters, and estuaries where larger waves are forming…
Rough treesLive trees of commercial species which do not contain a sawlog because of roughness, poor form, splits, or cracks.
Roulette chipsthese are casino issued chips for playing roulette only and may not be used for any other games.
Roulette layouta roulette layout has numbered grids and colors on a table where players can place their bets using roulette chips
Roulette strategya method any players use in order to improve chances of winning or avoid incurring huge amounts of losses.
Roulette systema method designed for players to help them beat the wheel or decrease house advantage, one such example is the Martingale System.
Roulette tablethe table consist of the layout and the wheel.
Roulette wheelthe wheel is a movable part of the table. It is generally divided into alternate colors of black and red.
Roulight / RouliteThe most modern variety of Roulette. A table game that has been developed in the first instance by specialists at the Wiesbaden Casino, Wiesbaden, Germany.
RoundSlang term for a way of making chassis adjustments utilizing the race car's springs.
Round KeyRound keys are values derived from the Cipher Key using the Key Expansion routine; they are applied to the State in the Cipher and Inverse Cipher.
Round lotA round lot is the normal trading unit for stocks and bonds on an organized securities exchange or market, also called a trading platform.
round robinA simple mechanism used by DNS servers to share and distribute loads for network resources.
round robin allocationAn allocation of timeslices that repeatedly cycles around a set of eligible threads in a fixed order.
round-trip delay timeThe elapsed time for transit of a signal over a closed circuit. Note: Round-trip delay time is significant in systems that require two-way interactive…
roundingDeleting the least-significant digits of a number and applying some rule of correction to the part retained. [After SMPTE]
Roundup-readyäDescribing transgenic crop varieties that carry the bacterial gene which detoxifies the herbicide glyphosate, thereby making them resistant to its…
RoundwoodLogs, bolts, or other round sections cut from trees.
routeA route of administration is a way of administering a drug to a site in a patient.
Route 53A scalable Domain Name System (DNS) that help businesses and developers to effectively route their end users in Internet applications by translating…
Route alertingA supplement to the public alert system; a method for alerting people in areas not covered by the primary system or if the primary system fails.
route attribute table (RAT)Route attribute table. An RAT stores route attributes. There is one RAT for each route-system in a coverage.
route diversityThe allocation of circuits between two points over more than one geographic or physical route with no geographic points in common.
route indexA pointer to a specific trunk group. [T1.667-1999]
route listA specific list of trunk groups. [After T1.667-1999]
route matrixIn communications network operations, a record that indicates the interconnections between pairs of nodes in the network, and is used to produce direct…
route measureA location along a route, defined as a measure from a start point, where measures include distance, time, milepost, address range.
route tableA set of routing rules that controls the traffic leaving any subnet that is associated with the route table.
route verificationProcedures that permit a signaling point to determine the accuracy and consistency of its routing data by sending a test message and analyzing the…
route-systemA collection of routes representing separate instances of a common linear entity, for example, all school bus routes in a city.
RouterA piece of hardware that forwards data packets between two or more networks.
routineA computer program, called by another program, that may have some general or frequent use.
routine messageA category of precedence to be used for all types of messages that justify transmission by rapid means unless of sufficient urgency to require a higher…
RoutineerA person having ordinary skill in an art. See Person Skilled in the Art.
RoutingThe methods of predicting the attenuation of a flood wave as it moves down the course of a river.
routing controlThe application of rules during the process of routing so as to chose or avoid specific networks, links or relays [7498-2].
routing diagramIn a communications system, a diagram that (a) shows all links between all switchboards, exchanges, switching centers, and stations in the system, such as…
Routing EngineThis COM component runs on the Event Service on Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.5.
routing groupA collection of Servers running Exchange 2000 that can transfer messaging data to one another in a single-hop without going through a bridgehead.
routing group connectorAn SMTP connector that is required for mail to flow between Exchange routing groups.