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Glossary : R
A to Z of commonly used abbreviations and acronyms
Aa : Bb : Cc : Dd : Ee : Ff : Gg : Hh : Ii : Jj : Kk : Ll : Mm : Nn : Oo : Pp : Qq : Rr : Ss : Tt : Uu : Vv : Ww : Xx : Yy : Zz : Nos 1-9
- .rtf or RTF : Rich Text Format file
- R&A : Review and Assessment
- R&D : research and development
- R&E : Registration and Enrolment
- RA : Regional Assembly
- RA : Registration Authority
- RAD : Role Activity Diagrams
- RAD : The Royal Association for Deaf people
- RADA : Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts
- RADIUS : Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
- RAG : Responsible Agents Group
- RAID : Redundant Array of Independent Disks (or Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks)
- RAM : Random-Access Memory
- RB : Housing Benefit Review Board
- RBB : River Board Boundary
- RBMP : River Basin Management Plan
- RBP : Reusable Business Pattern
- RBW : Removing barriers to work
- RCE : Regional Centre of Excellence
- RCEs : Regional Centres of Excellence
- RCU : Responsive College Unit
- RCVS : Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
- RDA : Regional Development Agency
- RDF : Resource Description Framework
- Ream : 500 sheets of paper
- RES : Rural Enterprise Scheme
- RFC : Request for Comment(s)
- RFID : Radio Frequency Identification (technology)
- RFP : Request for Proposal(s)
- RFQ : Request for Quotation
- RFRA : Regional Flood Risk Assessment
- RGB : Red Green Blue colour space
- RHIC : Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
- RHS : Royal Horticultural Society
- RIBA : Royal Institute of British Architects (http://www.architecture.com)
- RICS : Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
- RIDDOR 85 : Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1985
- RIGS : Regionally Important Geological / Geomorphological Site
- RIMA : Race in the Media awards
- RIPA : Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act
- RIPH : Royal Institute of Public Health
- Ripping : is the process of copying the audio
or video data from one media form, such as Digital Versatile Disc (DVD)
or Compact Disc (CD), to a hard disk.
- RISC : Reduced Instruction Set Computing
- RJC : Regional Joint Committee
- R/KYV : (pronounced Archive) - see EDRMS
- RLL : Run Length Limited
- RLV : Reusable Launch Vehicle
- RND : Red Nose Day
- RNIB : Royal National Institute for the Blind
- RNID : Royal National Institute for the Deaf
- RNLI : Royal National Lifeboat Institution
- RO&P : Rollout and Productisation
- ROET : Regional Office of Employment Tribunal
- ROI : Return on investment
- ROM : Read-Only Memory
- Roman Numerals : see below
- ROS : Registers of Scotland
- RoSPA : Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
- RoW : Reasoning on the Web
- ROW : Rights of Way
- RPB : Regional Planning Body
- RPC : Remote Procedure Call
- RPG : Regional Planning Guidance
- RPG : Role Playing Game
- RRA : Race Relations Act 1976
- RRD : Round Robin Database
- RRF : Rural Regeneration Fund
- RS : Reporting Services
- RSA : Royal Society of Arts
- RSG : Revenue Support Grant
- RSI : Repetitive Strain Injury
- RSL : registered social landlord
- RSL : Registry Size Limit
- RSL or RSLs : Registered Social Landlord or Registered Social Landlords
- RSPB : Royal Society for the Protect of Birds
- RSS : Regional spatial strategy
- RSS : RSS Feed(s) - Really Simple Syndication
- RSS : Rich Site Summary
- RTB : Right to Buy
- RTF : Rich Text Format
- RTM : Read The Manual! (also RTBM : Read the Bl__dy Manual!)
- RTPI : Royal Town Planning Institute (http://www.rtpi.org.uk)
- RTS : Real Time Strategy
- RUDI : Resource for Urban Design Information (http://www.rudi.net)
- RW : Rude Words
- RYOGENS : Reducing Youth Offending Generic National Solution
- RYP : Rural Youth Project
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Roman numerals :
1 = I 2 = II 3 = III 4 = IV 5 = V 6 = VI 7 = VII 8 = VIII 9 = IX 10 = X
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11 = XI 12 = XII 13 = XIII 14 = XIV 15 = XV 16 = XVI 17 = XVII 18 = XVIII 19 = XIX 20 = XX
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10 = X 20 = XX 30 = XXX 40 = XL 50 = L 60 = LX 70 = LXX 80 = LXXX 90 = XC 100 = C
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100 = C 200 = CC 300 = CCC 400 = CD or CCCC 500 = D 600 = DC 700 = DCC 800 = DCCC 900 = CM 1,000 = M 2,000 = MM |
To convert a number to roman numerals try this link :
