Technology terms starting with R

1,106 terms

  1. Routing Objects Component Object Model (COM) objects that are used to program Exchange's routing engine behavior.
  2. routing protocol In an internet, a service protocol that is used (by routers, but not by hosts) to maintain routing tables; routing protocols are classified as either (a)…
  3. Routing service A component in Exchange 2000 that builds link state information. [Exchange 2000]
  4. routing table Contains information that the MTA needs to route messages. [Exchange 5.5]
  5. ROV Remotely Operated Vehicle. 251
  6. ROW Rest-of-World.
  7. Rows and columns A search installation may be configured in a row/column configuration for performance and fault-tolerance reasons.
  8. RP Role Playing; Role Player; Role Play. To act, behave and talk in a way as though you are the character you are controlling.
  9. RP&C Resource Planning and Coordination.
  10. RPAC Resource Performance Analysis Center.
  11. RPC See definition for: Remote procedure call (RPC)
  12. RPC (remote procedure call) A message-passing facility that allows a distributed application to call services that are available on various computers on a network.
  13. RPC (Remote Procedure Calls) A reliable synchronous protocol that transfers data between clients and servers, and between servers.
  14. RPIE Real Property Installed Equipment.
  15. RPM Short for revolutions per minute, the measurement of the engine's crankshaft.
  16. RPV Remotely Piloted Vehicle.
  17. RQ Abbreviation for repeat-request. See ARQ.
  18. Rqmt Requirement.
  19. RQMTS Requirements.
  20. RQn Review Question (AFMC term).
  21. RR Redridge Mountains
  22. RR (read receipt) A notice that a message was read by its intended recipient. [Exchange 5.5]
  23. RRDI Range Resolved Doppler Imagining
  24. RRFD Risk Reduction Flight Demonstration.
  25. RRG Requirements Review Group.
  26. RRS records retention schedule See retention schedule.
  27. RRS (records retention schedule) See retention schedule.
  28. RS Radar Set (PATRIOT).
  29. RSA Russian Space Agency.
  30. RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) RSA is a public key encryption method RSA are the initials of the developers of the algorithm which was done at taxpayer expense.
  31. RSAREF This is the free library RSA Data Security, Inc., made available for the purpose of implementing freeware PEM applications.
  32. RSAT A feature in Windows Server that enables remote management of Windows Server operating systems by allowing users to open and run management tools on a…
  33. RSAV Resupply/ammunition vehicle.
  34. RSE Range Systems Engineering, a Raytheon company.
  35. RSG (recovery storage group) A special storage group that enables you to mount a mailbox database, extract data from the mounted database, and then either copy the extracted data to a…
  36. rsh The command used to establish a Remote Shell connection.
  37. RSI Rationalization, Standardization, and Interoperability.
  38. RSIP Radar System Improvement Program.
  39. RSL Abbreviation for received signal level.
  40. RSO Resident Space Object.
  41. RSOI Reception, Staging, Operation and force Integration (Joint Forces term).
  42. RSRE Royal Signal and Radar Establishment (UK).
  43. RSS Rich Site Summary or Real Simple Syndication is a method of syndicating information to a feed reader or other software which allows people to subscribe to…
  44. RST Radar System Test (THAAD-GBR)
  45. RSTA Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition.
  46. RSTER Radar Surveillance Technology Experimental Radar (UHF).
  47. RSU Remote Switching Unit.
  48. RSV A virus that causes respiratory infections with cold-like symptoms. Also called respiratory syncytial virus.
  49. RT (1) Relocation Time (ILS term). (2) Repair Task Distribution (ILS term).
  50. RTA Abbreviation for remote trunk arrangement.
  51. RTAudio An advanced speech codec that is designed for real-time two-way Voice over IP (VoIP) applications such as gaming, audio conferencing, and wireless…
  52. RTC Report to Congress.
  53. RTCA Real Time Casualty Assessment (US Army term).
  54. RTCP Real-time Transport Control Protocol. A feedback protocol that provides QoS information to the streaming server.
  55. RTD Radar Technology Demonstration. 252
  56. RTD (Real Tape Drive) a physical tape drive. See VTD.
  57. RTF Release To Fleet (USN term).
  58. RTFM What you are told when someone thinks you should Read The Fine Manual.
  59. RTG Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator.
  60. RTIM Radar Technology Identification Methodology.
  61. RTO Recovery Time Objective
  62. RTOV Real Time Operational Verification.
  63. RTOVF Real Time Operational Verification Facility (US Army term).
  64. RTP Real-time Transport Protocol. An Internet protocol for the transmission of real-time data, including voice and video.
  65. RTS (1) Request To Send (Telecomm/Computer term). (2) Remote Tracking Station.
  66. RTS (Records Transfer Sheet) The form required by the State Records Center to accompany all semi-active records which will be maintained in the Records Center or permanent records…
  67. RTSP Real Time Streaming Protocol. An open standard for delivery of real-time media over the Internet.
  68. RTTY Abbreviation for radio teletypewriter.
  69. RTWP Real Time Wave form Processor (Advanced Technology Demonstration Radar term).
  70. rubber sheeting A procedure to adjust coverage features in a nonuniform manner. Links representing from- and to-locations are used to define the adjustment.
  71. rubidium clock A clock containing a quartz oscillator stabilized by a rubidium standard.
  72. rubidium standard A frequency standard in which a specified hyperfine transition of electrons in rubidium-87 atoms is used to control the output frequency.
  73. Rule an authoritative direction for conduct or procedure.
  74. rule collection An ordered set of rules for the purpose of implementing a messaging policy. The number of rule collections is set at design time. [Exchange 2007]
  75. rule-based category Categories that are created by rules that specify which documents are associated with which categories.
  76. Rule-Based Security Policy A security policy based on global rules imposed for all subjects. These rules usually rely on a comparison of the sensitivity of the objects being…
  77. Rules of Engagement (ROE) Directives issued by competent military authority which delineate the circumstances and limitations under which United States forces will initiate and/or…
  78. Run Seasonal upstream migration of anadromous fish. One or more lengths of pipe that continue in a straight line.
  79. run level An attribute of an application that indicates which type of access token to use when the application is started.
  80. Run of Site (ROS) The scheduling of ads across an entire site, often at a lower cost than the purchase of specific pages or sub-sections of the site.
  81. run phase Any time after Perl starts running your main program. See also "compile phase".
  82. run time The time when Perl is actually doing what your code says to do, as opposed to the earlier period of time when it was trying to figure out whether what you…
  83. run-length encoding A data compression technique for storing raster or gridded data. Run-length encoding stores data by row.
  84. run-time pattern A pattern that contains one or more variables to be interpolated before parsing the pattern as a "regular expression", and that therefore cannot be…
  85. runtime error An error that causes a program to terminate when it is being run.
  86. runtime stack A stack structure maintained by the Java Virtual Machine that records which methods are currently being executed.
  87. runtime system The software environment in which programs compiled for the Java virtual machine can run.
  88. RUPS Resource User ID and Password System.
  89. rural radio service A public radio service rendered by fixed stations on frequencies below 1000 MHz used to provide (1) Basic Exchange Telecommunications Radio Service, which…
  90. rural subscriber station A fixed station in the rural radio service used by a subscriber for communication within a central office station. 2.
  91. RUS (Recipient Update Service) This is part of the Exchange System Attendant and is responsible for keeping Address Lists up-to-date and creating proxy addresses for users.
  92. RUSI Royal United Services Institute (UK).
  93. RV See Reentry Vehicle.
  94. RV Complex A reentry vehicle and its associated objects.
  95. RV Temperature The temperature of the heat given off by the RV that allows sensors to acquire them.
  96. rvalue A "value" that you might find on the right side of an "assignment". See also "lvalue".
  97. RVAO Reentry Vehicle Associated Objects.
  98. RVP (Rendezvous Protocol) (Note that this name is preliminary). The Microsoft published protocol that is used between the MSN Messenger service and the Instant Messaging server…
  99. Rvw Review.
  100. RW Rainshower