Technology terms starting with R

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  1. RMI Republic of the Marshall Islands.
  2. RMI (Remote method invocation) Remote method invocation (RMI) is a feature of Java SE that enables Java objects running in one virtual machine to invoke methods of Java objects running…
  3. RMI OP (RMI Optional Package) The RMI Optional Package (RMI OP) is a subset of Java SE 1.3's RMI functionality used in CDC-based profiles that incorporate the Foundation Profile, such…
  4. RMI Profile The RMI Profile is a Java ME profile specification designed to support Java's Remote Method Invocation (RMI) distributed object system.
  5. RMI-IIOP A version of RMI implemented to use the CORBA IIOP protocol. RMI over IIOP provides interoperability with CORBA objects implemented in any language if all…
  6. RMM (ReMovable Media) IBM's tape management software product.
  7. RMO Reflectivity.
  8. RMP Risk Management Plan.
  9. RMS (1) Remote Manipulator System. (2) Root Mean Square.
  10. RMS (Record Management System) The Record Management System (RMS) is a simple record-oriented database that allows a MIDlet to persistently store information and retrieve it later.
  11. rms pulse duration See root-mean-square pulse duration.
  12. RNAS REL NAV Analytic Simulator (JTIDS term).
  13. RNLAF Royal Netherlands Air Force.
  14. RNLN Royal Netherlands Navy.
  15. RO Receiving Office - the national Office or the intergovernmental organization with which an international application has been filed.
  16. roaming In cellular technology (mobile telephone technology), the use of a wireless telephone outside a specified tariffed geographic area defined by the service…
  17. roaming workloads the backend product of cloudcenters.
  18. ROB Remote Operating Base.
  19. Robot Any browser program which follows hypertext links and accesses web pages but is not directly under human control...
  20. robotic librarian Synonym droid.
  21. Robots Exclusion Protocol A protocol that allows Web site administrators to indicate to visiting robots which parts of their site should not be visited by the robot.
  22. Robots.txt A text file stored in the top level directory of a web site to deny access by robots to certain pages or sub-directories of the site.
  23. ROBS Rapid Optical Beam Steering (system).
  24. Robust Used in describing a system; indicates its ability to endure and perform its mission against a responsive threat.
  25. Robustness (1) The ability to produce correct results despite input errors. (2) The existence of coordinated, multiple capabilities that perform the same broad…
  26. ROC (1) Regional Operations Center. (2) Required Operational Capability.
  27. ROC (Raid on Chip) Single chip that provides hardware RAID protection by combining features and functionality that previously required separate components; a single chip…
  28. ROCC Regional Operations Control Center.
  29. ROD A graduated staff used in determining the difference in elevation between two points.
  30. RODC A domain controller that has read-only copies of directory partitions.
  31. RODC filtered attribute set A dynamically configured set of attributes that are not replicated to a read-only domain controller (RODC).
  32. ROE Fish eggs
  33. ROF Rate of Fire
  34. ROI Return on Investment.
  35. ROI - Return On Investment The benefit gained in return for the cost of investing budget into advertising or project.
  36. ROK Republic of Korea.
  37. role See site group.
  38. role (development) The function performed by a party in the development and deployment phases of an application developed using J2EE technology.
  39. role (security) An abstract logical grouping of users that is defined by the application assembler.
  40. role mapping The process of associating the groups or principals (or both), recognized by the container with security roles specified in the deployment descriptor.
  41. role service A software program or logical collection of software programs that provide the functionality of a role.
  42. roles Logical sets of permissions, similar to groups, which determine access to documents in the workspace.
  43. roll back To cancel any changes to a database made during the current transaction. Compare with commit.
  44. rollback A return to a previous state that follows the failure to create an object, such as AWS CloudFormation stack.
  45. Rolled Fingerprints An image that includes fingerprint data from nail to nail, obtained by �rolling� the finger across a sensor, as illustrated below.
  46. rolling disaster A second disaster that occurs before recovering from a previous disaster, e.g. while data is being synchronized between two data centers after a disaster…
  47. Rolling Disposal Request (RM6) A disposal request form implemented with the intent to provide an agency with the State Record Committee’s annual revolving approval to dispose of…
  48. ROM Read Only Memory - the hardware in a computer that that can be read but not written to.
  49. ROMB (RAID on Motherboard) A solution that is extremely cost-effective and compact in its design because all of the components of the RAID device are included on the motherboard.
  50. roofing filter A low-pass filter used to reduce unwanted higher frequencies.
  51. ROOM Real-time Object-Oriented Methodology.
  52. Room ambient conditions The temperature, humidity, and air quality of the surrounding conditions. Those conditions generally found in a library, resource, studio, or office…
  53. room mailbox A room mailbox is a type of resource mailbox that is assigned to a meeting location such as a conference room, auditorium, or training room.
  54. room noise level Synonym ambient noise level.
  55. room preset In 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.
  56. root To trap a target in place/stuck using a "root" type spell such as Entangling Roots.
  57. Root Certification Authority In a hierarchical Public Key Infrastructure, the Certification Authority whose public key serves as the most trusted datum (i.e.
  58. root device volume Contains 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…
  59. Root mean square (RMS) error A measure calculated when registering a map to a digitizer, indicating the discrepancy between known point locations and their digitized locations.
  60. root volume The volume that a NetApp appliance first looks at when booting to obtain configuration information.
  61. root-mean-square (rms) deviation A single quantity, rms, characterizing a function, f(x), given by Note: The term "rms deviation" is also used in probability and statistics, where the…
  62. root-mean-square (rms) pulse broadening The temporal rms deviation of the impulse response of a system.
  63. root-mean-square (rms) pulse duration A special case of root-mean-square deviation where the independent variable is time and f(t) describes the pulse waveform.
  64. Rootkit A 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…
  65. rope lay conductor A conductor composed of a central core surrounded by one or more layers of helically wound groups of wires.
  66. RORSAT Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite.
  67. rotary dial A signaling mechanism--usually incorporated within a telephone set--that when rotated and released, generates dc pulses required for establishing a…
  68. rotary hunting Hunting in which all the numbers in the hunt group are selected in a prescribed order.
  69. rotary switching In telephone systems, an electro-mechanical switching method whereby the selecting mechanism consists of a rotating element using several groups of…
  70. 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…
  71. Round Key Round 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.
  72. round robin A simple mechanism used by DNS servers to share and distribute loads for network resources.
  73. round robin allocation An allocation of timeslices that repeatedly cycles around a set of eligible threads in a fixed order.
  74. round-trip delay time The 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…
  75. rounding Deleting the least-significant digits of a number and applying some rule of correction to the part retained. [After SMPTE]
  76. route A route of administration is a way of administering a drug to a site in a patient.
  77. Route 53 A scalable Domain Name System (DNS) that help businesses and developers to effectively route their end users in Internet applications by translating…
  78. route attribute table (RAT) Route attribute table. An RAT stores route attributes. There is one RAT for each route-system in a coverage.
  79. route diversity The allocation of circuits between two points over more than one geographic or physical route with no geographic points in common.
  80. route index A pointer to a specific trunk group. [T1.667-1999]
  81. route list A specific list of trunk groups. [After T1.667-1999]
  82. route matrix In communications network operations, a record that indicates the interconnections between pairs of nodes in the network, and is used to produce direct…
  83. route measure A location along a route, defined as a measure from a start point, where measures include distance, time, milepost, address range.
  84. route table A set of routing rules that controls the traffic leaving any subnet that is associated with the route table.
  85. route verification Procedures that permit a signaling point to determine the accuracy and consistency of its routing data by sending a test message and analyzing the…
  86. route-system A collection of routes representing separate instances of a common linear entity, for example, all school bus routes in a city.
  87. Router A piece of hardware that forwards data packets between two or more networks.
  88. routine A computer program, called by another program, that may have some general or frequent use.
  89. routine message A 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…
  90. Routing The methods of predicting the attenuation of a flood wave as it moves down the course of a river.
  91. routing address Synonym routing number, routing table.
  92. routing control The application of rules during the process of routing so as to chose or avoid specific networks, links or relays [7498-2].
  93. routing diagram In a communications system, a diagram that (a) shows all links between all switchboards, exchanges, switching centers, and stations in the system, such as…
  94. routing directory See routing table.
  95. Routing Engine This COM component runs on the Event Service on Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.5.
  96. routing group A collection of Servers running Exchange 2000 that can transfer messaging data to one another in a single-hop without going through a bridgehead.
  97. routing group connector An SMTP connector that is required for mail to flow between Exchange routing groups.
  98. routing indicator (RI) A group of letters assigned to indicate: (a) the geographic location of a station; (b) a fixed headquarters of a command, activity, or unit at a…
  99. routing label The part of the message label that is used for message routing in the signaling network.
  100. routing number Synonym routing address, routing table.