This much-used symbol has many meanings in medicine. They include: Respiration: a nurse's note of "R20" is shorthand for 20 respirations (breaths) per minute. Right: A doctor's note of a burn on the "R digit 5" places the burn on the right little finger or toe. Roentgen, an international unit of X-radiation or gamma- [..]

Fifth letter of a Nasdaq stock symbol specifying that the stock has rights.

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In a circle, meaning "registered (trademark)," first incorporated in U.S. statues 1946. R&R "rest and relaxation," first recorded 1953, American English; R&B "rhythm a [..]

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Accumulation Ratio, see Css.

The lazy person's version of many, many words, such as: 1. Yes 2. No 3. Correct 4. Hello 5. Goodbye 6. Fine thanks The word, or letter, may prefix certain textual emoticons, which enhance its [..]

The spoken sound to acknowledge failure or a Let Down decision. It is emitted from one's mouth either voluntarily or involuntarily upon receipt of bad news.

The non existant letter in any bostonian's vocabulary.

a lazy form of typing the word are.

(v) To be left on read

Abbreviation for "retarded." Offensive.

Queens of the Stone Ages best album. Contains their most famous song, 'Feel Good Hit Of The Summer'.

cool smiley, well used all over the world..

An emoticon : smoking a joint.

A raised eyebrow and smiling emoticon commonly used when your skeptical of a situation however it also works as a cheeky smile. :)

The common pirate phrase "Arrr."

an abbriviation for the Game Company Rockstar Games who brought into this world wonderful games such as GTA:III and GTA:Vice City

an abbriviation for the Game Company Rockstar Games who brought into this world wonderful games such as GTA:III, GTA:Vice City, and GTA: San Andreas

illest rappa from tha tough streets of Baltimore City, MD reppin Smallwood st. liberty heights album cummin out dis year hustles drugs on da side

The R. Royal Samoan Production, aka Royal Samoan Posse or The Royals. A samoan crip gang formed in the 70's in Santa Ana, Ca. Started as a Popping/Dance Crew along with Santa Ana Poppers, Sam [..]

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ram A male sheep.

An open-source programming language and environment for statistical computing and graph generation available for Linux, Windows, and Mac.

RADSL Acronym for Rate Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line. See DSL.

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Restorative pruning

Relief

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GOLF TERMS LETTER R

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Symbol used for the Pearson-product moment correlation (correlation coefficient)

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Rayuma N rheumatism

Election season, management style, and the metal fabricator

The statistic known as the coefficient of correlation. The range of this statistic is -1 to +1. When this statistic is squared the result is the percentage change in the dependent variable y that is e [..]

Registered Phase from IDdb. The drug has been approved for marketing. There is sometimes a delay between registration and launch, often because of difficulties in scaling-up the manufacturing process. In rare cases a drug may be approved but not marketed.

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Required if applicable or readily available - must be entered if appropriate under AACR2 and available on the item or from other records

abbreviation Definition: A short word for "are" Word History: I heard it from friends.Example Sentence: R you going to school with me?

eflective  specialty ink or transfers that are generally used for safety applications.  Reflective material reflects a bright image back at the source of light.  A wonderful application for Children&# [..]

oundelle A donut shaped fabric stuffed head dress worn with a veil by women in the 14th and 15th Centuries. 

ivet metal tack or burr originally invented by Mr. Levi (Levi's) for securing the pocket sides.

etail price price set for items sold to the general public. The last mark-up in the cost to bring an item to a particular consumer store. Please note, many items will have a suggested retail price set [..]

etail   Retailers are defined as those establishments that sell merchandise, generally without transformation, and attract customers using methods such as advertising, point-of-sale location, and disp [..]

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radial keratotomy (RK) (keh-ruh-TAH-tuh-mee). Series of spoke-like (radial) cuts made in the corneal periphery to allow the central cornea to flatten, reducing its optical power and thereby correcting [..]

radio mic: A microphone which uses radio waves instead of cables to transmit signals to a receiver.

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statistics - r is the correlation coefficient, a measure of interdependence between two variables; R2 is called the coefficient of determination, a measure of the percent variance explained by a model; adjusted R2 has been corrected for degrees of freedom

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Reaction Injection Molding (RIM)

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Real property ​ Includes land and anything growing on or permanently attached to or built on that land, such as a building, and any associated rights and interests in the land. The term “immovable” is used in Quebec.

 

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Random sample, Randomized, Reliable, Representative sample

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language. R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling [..]

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The apparent magnitude of a celestial object such as a star when measured through an R filter. An R filter lets red light through.

See ideal gas constant.

Rally:

Abnormal = RActual – RNormal

 

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(n) a unit of radiation exposure; the dose of ionizing radiation that will produce 1 electrostatic unit of electricity in 1 cc of dry air(n) (physics) the universal constant in the gas equation: press [..]

Radio astronomy   Radiocommunications Assembly   Radio Regulations   Radius   RDBS   RDS   Release 4   Release 5   Release 99   Remote sensing   Respiration   RF Identification   Ring topology   RIPE [..]

The symbol used to represent the coronality element.

Are or our

radiolariansingle-celled heterotrophic organisms with elaborate skeletons made of silica. These silica skeletons are so durable that radiolarian fossils are used to date deep-sea sediments.

radiolarian single-celled heterotrophic organisms with elaborate skeletons made of silica. These silica skeletons are so durable that radiolarian fossils are used to date deep-sea sediments.

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Return to Top Raceway - Any channel designed expressly and used solely for holding conductors. Rachet - A clause in a rate schedule that provides that maximum past or present demands be taken into account in establishing billings for previous or subsequent periods. The wholesale electrical supplier has the rachet clause in a rate schedule [..]

 

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ADJ Roman (abb.); [E.Q.R. => Eques Romanus]; Rufus

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paper. Resin-coated paper for typesetting and PMTs that, when properly processed, will not yellow.

22 refrigerant - R-22 is a single component HCFC refrigerant with low ozone depletion potential. It has long been used in a variety of air-conditioning and refrigeration applications in a variety of markets. Production of R-22 will cease in 2015 per the Montreal Protocol.

RA: Relevant acquisition. RA's are a wholesale or notional wholesale acquisition of electricity.

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RAM A cylinder that has an extend port only. Usually accompanied by auxiliary cylinders that are mechanically linked to the ram to facilitate retraction action.

Rabbet

RESA

The act of contradicting or overcoming the effect of a presumption or evidence.

RAC

ocker panel/undercarriage

A prefix designation, always followed by a number, (e.g. R-24) designating a standard oval or hexagonal Ring Gasket.  A term used to refer to any ring groove that will accept an R ring gasket.

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REACT - Reemployment and Emergency Assistance Coordination Team, DLES unit for responding to Dislocated Worker events

Recycle:  To treat or process (used or waste materials) so as to make them suitable for reuse

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Recreational land:

Repaired windscreen crack on car map

recapitulation 1) A restatement of thematic ideas. 2) The third section of sonata form in which there is a restatement of material from the exposition, often with further modifications.

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[2,4] (set theory, linear) abbreviation for retrograde

rain stick - a long hollowed out piece of wood that is filled with beads or pebbles. When turned upside down, it makes the sound of rain falling. This instrument is often used in band and orchestra for special percussion effects.

Registration Setups

rallentando – Indicates a change in tempo: slowing down (abbreviation: rall.). Essentially the same as “ritardando”. See also “ritenuto”, “ritardando”, “allargando”, “stringendo”, “accelerando”, “alla [..]

Illustrated Glossary of Organic Chemistry R: (1) Designation of the absolute configuration of a stereocenter at which the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog priorities of the attached groups decrease in a clockwise m [..]

This page provides an alphabetical listing of some of the basic hiking, backpacking, mountaineering, camping, and archaeological terms that one might encounter while preparing for an adventure in canyon country. The definitions on these pages are meant only as a beginning, a point from which to get familiar as quickly as possible with the jargon of [..]

Return: The money won on a successful wager.

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Reduced Iron: The most common source of iron to enrich breakfast cereals and is manufactured by several chemical methods. Reduced iron powder is dark metallic grey, insoluble in water, magnetic and “generally regarded as safe” by the FDA to use as a dietary supplement.

Reception classes – Defined by Section 142 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1988. An entry class to primary schools for children who have their fifth birthday during the school year and for children who are younger or older than five with whom it is appropriate to educate them.

A surcharge imposed by a carrier on ocean freight charges to offset foreign currency fluctuations. Customer: An enterprise that uses the services as provided by another enterprise.

The way is off my ship you may feel your way past. See also: Signals. Search for Flag books on Amazon.co.uk

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Reduced Paid up

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Most policies exclude damages to your vessel while operated in an official race or speed test unless you are operating a sailboat. If this is unclear and you find yourself regularly involved in this a [..]

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R is a GNU-licensed free software programming language and software environment primarily used for statistical computing as well as for graphics. It is widely used by statisticians and data miners for [..]

Rabies

randomized trial: a study in which participants are assigned by chance to one of two or more intervention arms or regimens. Randominization minimizes the differences among groups by equally distributi [..]

Rhopalid - an insect in the family Rhopalidae in the order Hemiptera (true bugs).

Radial

Ready to eat foodsFood that is intended to be eaten without any treatment that would destroy pathogens that may be present. Hight risk foods include all high risk foods such as fruit, salad, vegetable [..]

Record date

left;" title="Page 18"> RADIATING: Crystals growing outward from a central point.

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rape sexual intercourse with a woman without consent as a result of physical force or threats, or because she was unconscious or asleep, or because consent as to the nature of the act was obtained through fraud. This term is not used in Western Australia but is in some other Australian States.

Revocable Trust A trust in which the creator reserves the right to modify or terminate the trust.

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Rex (the King) or Regina (the Queen), ie the Crown (in the context of prosecutions by the state).

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The act of contradicting or overcoming the effect of a presumption or evidence.

Reasonable Doubt

Racial Discrimination

Ramadan Rationalism Redemption Reformation Reincarnation Religion Religious Right Religious Tolerance Resurrection Rosary

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eport. A product issued by local NWS offices to inform users of reports of severe and/or significant weather-related events. -M-

adar units, replaced by WSR-88D units.

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egion. (Also known as a vault.) Radar signature within a thunderstorm characterized by a local minimum in radar reflectivity at low levels which extends upward into, and is surrounded by, higher reflectivities aloft (Fig. 2). This feature is associated with a strong updraft and is almost always found in the inflow region of a thunderstorm. It canno [..]

Radiant Energy - This is the type of energy found in photons and electromagnetic waves. It can be in the visible or invisible electromagnetic wavelengths. This involves aspects of radiant heating with [..]

Route Tuned NAVAID

Radio (ELINT/SIGINT) – UK designator.

 

 

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The correlation co-efficient, which provides an index of the degree to which paired measures co-vary in a linear fashion. It is the square root of the co-efficient of determination, described below. T [..]

real GDP GDP (gross domestic product) adjusted for inflation. Real GDP provides the value of GDP in constant dollars, which is used as an indicator of the volume of the nation's output.

Re-purposing – The process by which an object with one use value is transformed or redeployed as an object with an alternative use value.

Radial velocity – Acceleration of an object going away from or headed towards an observer.

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Booking class - use varies depending upon airline

red tide a reddish discoloration of coastal surface waters due to concentrations of certain toxin-producing dinoflagellates [marine plankton]

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RAF (Relative Absorption Factor)

 

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Reactive Organic Compound (ROC) - A reactive chemical gas, composed of hydrocarbons, that react with nitrogen oxides and contribute to the formation of ozone. Also known as Volatile Organic Compounds (see VOC), or as Non-Methane Organic Compounds (NMOCs). The APCD considers all volatile compounds containing carbon except the following to be reactiv [..]

Resting pressure: is the pressure exerted by a compression stocking or a bandage when the muscles are resting.  

Review Child Protection Conference - An inter-agency meeting which reviews the circumstances of a child whose name is on the Child Protection Register.

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Risk of serious harm

 

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Back to top Rag Rolling One of the staples of traditional specialist decoration, a rag is rolled through wet glaze to give a pattern. Not the most refined of techniques.

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The eighteenth letter of the .

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Revocable Trust A trust in which the creator reserves the right to modify or terminate the trust.

Rigging

Radio Frequency (RF):

relish your hot dog, roll your own/the Bologna, roman helmet rumba, rope the pony/pope, round up the tadpoles...

the ramburglar, ram rod, raw meat, rod, rolling pin, rudder,

rail, ram, ride,ride the flagpole, roll in the hay, romp,

R is a programming language and environment for statistical computing (see http://www.r-project.org). The R environment and its source code are freely available under the GNU GPL license; precompiled [..]

Recapitalization

Rating scales

Relations of production

Radio frequency ablation (RFA)

Fifth letter of a Nasdaq stock symbol specifying that the stock has rights.