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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.
room noise level Synonym ambient noise level.
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.
root To trap a target in place/stuck using a "root" type spell such as Entangling Roots.
Root Certification Authority In a hierarchical Public Key Infrastructure, the Certification Authority whose public key serves as the most trusted datum (i.e.
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…
Root mean square (RMS) error (RMS) A measure calculated when registering a map to a digitizer, indicating the discrepancy between known point locations and their digitized locations.
root volume The volume that a NetApp appliance first looks at when booting to obtain configuration information.
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…
root-mean-square (rms) pulse broadening The temporal rms deviation of the impulse response of a system.
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.
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…
rope lay conductor A conductor composed of a central core surrounded by one or more layers of helically wound groups of wires.
RORSAT Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite.
rotary dial A signaling mechanism--usually incorporated within a telephone set--that when rotated and released, generates dc pulses required for establishing a…
rotary hunting Hunting in which all the numbers in the hunt group are selected in a prescribed order.
rotary switching In telephone systems, an electro-mechanical switching method whereby the selecting mechanism consists of a rotating element using several groups of…
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…
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.
round robin A simple mechanism used by DNS servers to share and distribute loads for network resources.
round robin allocation An allocation of timeslices that repeatedly cycles around a set of eligible threads in a fixed order.
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…
rounding Deleting the least-significant digits of a number and applying some rule of correction to the part retained. [After SMPTE]
route A route of administration is a way of administering a drug to a site in a patient.
Route 53 A scalable Domain Name System (DNS) that help businesses and developers to effectively route their end users in Internet applications by translating…
route attribute table (RAT) (RAT) Route attribute table. An RAT stores route attributes. There is one RAT for each route-system in a coverage.
route diversity The allocation of circuits between two points over more than one geographic or physical route with no geographic points in common.
route index A pointer to a specific trunk group. [T1.667-1999]
route list A specific list of trunk groups. [After T1.667-1999]
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…
route measure A location along a route, defined as a measure from a start point, where measures include distance, time, milepost, address range.
route table A set of routing rules that controls the traffic leaving any subnet that is associated with the route table.
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…
route-system A collection of routes representing separate instances of a common linear entity, for example, all school bus routes in a city.
Router A piece of hardware that forwards data packets between two or more networks.
routine A computer program, called by another program, that may have some general or frequent use.
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…
Routing The methods of predicting the attenuation of a flood wave as it moves down the course of a river.
routing address Synonym routing number, routing table.
routing control The application of rules during the process of routing so as to chose or avoid specific networks, links or relays [7498-2].
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…
routing directory See routing table.
Routing Engine This COM component runs on the Event Service on Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.5.
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.
routing group connector An SMTP connector that is required for mail to flow between Exchange routing groups.
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…
routing label The part of the message label that is used for message routing in the signaling network.
routing number Synonym routing address, routing table.
Routing Objects Component Object Model (COM) objects that are used to program Exchange's routing engine behavior.
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)…
Routing service A component in Exchange 2000 that builds link state information. [Exchange 2000]
routing table Contains information that the MTA needs to route messages. [Exchange 5.5]
ROV Remotely Operated Vehicle. 251
ROW Rest-of-World.
Rows and columns A search installation may be configured in a row/column configuration for performance and fault-tolerance reasons.
RP Role Playing; Role Player; Role Play. To act, behave and talk in a way as though you are the character you are controlling.
RP&C Resource Planning and Coordination.
RPAC Resource Performance Analysis Center.
RPC See definition for: Remote procedure call (RPC)
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.
RPC (Remote Procedure Calls) A reliable synchronous protocol that transfers data between clients and servers, and between servers.
RPIE Real Property Installed Equipment.
RPM Short for revolutions per minute, the measurement of the engine's crankshaft.
RPV Remotely Piloted Vehicle.
RQ Abbreviation for repeat-request. See ARQ.
Rqmt Requirement.
RQMTS Requirements.
RQn Review Question (AFMC term).
RR Redridge Mountains
RR (read receipt) A notice that a message was read by its intended recipient. [Exchange 5.5]
RRDI Range Resolved Doppler Imagining
RRFD Risk Reduction Flight Demonstration.
RRG Requirements Review Group.
RRS records retention schedule See retention schedule.
RRS (records retention schedule) See retention schedule.
RS Radar Set (PATRIOT).
RSA Russian Space Agency.
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.
RSAREF This is the free library RSA Data Security, Inc., made available for the purpose of implementing freeware PEM applications.
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…
RSAV Resupply/ammunition vehicle.
RSE Range Systems Engineering, a Raytheon company.
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…
rsh The command used to establish a Remote Shell connection.
RSI Rationalization, Standardization, and Interoperability.
RSIP Radar System Improvement Program.
RSL Abbreviation for received signal level.
RSO Resident Space Object.
RSOI Reception, Staging, Operation and force Integration (Joint Forces term).
RSRE Royal Signal and Radar Establishment (UK).
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…
RST Radar System Test (THAAD-GBR)
RSTA Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition.
RSTER Radar Surveillance Technology Experimental Radar (UHF).
RSU Remote Switching Unit.
RSV A virus that causes respiratory infections with cold-like symptoms. Also called respiratory syncytial virus.
RT (1) Relocation Time (ILS term). (2) Repair Task Distribution (ILS term).
RTA Abbreviation for remote trunk arrangement.
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…
RTC Report to Congress.