RMS may refer to:

Places

Ramstein Air Base Ramstein Air Base or Ramstein AB is a United States Air Force base in Rhineland-Palatinate, a state in southwestern Germany. It serves as headquarters for the United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA) and also ...

, in Germany (IATA code RMS) * (Republic of the South Moluccas), a self-proclaimed republic in the Maluku Islands, founded in 1950

Organizations

Learned societies

Ramanujan Mathematical Society Ramanujan Mathematical Society is an Indian organisation of persons formed with the aim of "promoting mathematics at all levels". The Society was founded in 1985 and registered in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. Professor G. Shankaranarayan ...

, a learned society founded in 1985 in India *

Royal Medical Society The Royal Medical Society (RMS) is a society run by students at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, Scotland. It claims to be the oldest medical society in the United Kingdom although this claim is also made by the earlier London-based ...

, a learned society founded in 1737 at the University of Edinburgh Medical School *

Royal Meteorological Society The Royal Meteorological Society is a long-established institution that promotes academic and public engagement in weather and climate science. Fellows of the Society must possess relevant qualifications, but Associate Fellows can be lay enthus ...

, a learned society founded in 1850 in Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire *

Royal Microscopical Society The Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) is a learned society for the promotion of microscopy. It was founded in 1839 as the Microscopical Society of London making it the oldest organisation of its kind in the world. In 1866, the society gained it ...

, a learned society founded in 1839 in London, now headquartered in Oxford *

Russian Mineralogical Society The Russian Mineralogical Society (RMS) is a public scientific organization uniting specialists and scientific groups working in the field of mineralogy and adjacent sciences. RMS was founded in 1817 Saint Petersburg, Russia, and is the world oldes ...

, a learned society founded in 1817 in Saint Petersburg *

Russian Musical Society The Russian Musical Society (RMS) (russian: Русское музыкальное общество) was the first music school in Russia open to the general public. It was launched in 1859 by the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna and Anton Rubinstei ...

, a learned society founded in 1859 and disbanded in 1917

Schools

United States

Radnor Middle School Radnor Township School District is a school district that serves Radnor Township, Pennsylvania and has 3 elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school. Due to the mostly affluent demographic of the Main Line that the Radnor Township ...

, in Radnor, Pennsylvania *

Redwood Middle School (Saratoga, California) The Saratoga Union School District is a school district for primary and middle schools in the city of Saratoga in Santa Clara County, California. It was established in 1865 and covers the majority of the city of Saratoga as well as small sections ...

Rice Middle School Plano Independent School District (PISD or Plano ISD) is an independent school district in southwestern Collin County, Texas, based in Plano. Plano ISD serves about of land, with of it within the City of Plano. The district also takes student ...

, in Plano, Texas * Richardson Middle School, in Chicago, Illinois * Richland Middle School, in Richland Hills, Texas * Riverwood Middle School, in Kingwood, Texas * Robinson Middle School, in Plano, Texas * Rocky Mountain semester, in Leadville, Colorado; now called High Mountain Institute Semester * Romulus Middle School, in Romulus, Michigan *

Roosevelt Middle School (Oakland, California) This is a list of current public middle schools in Oakland, California, including charter schools. Schools administered by the Oakland Unified School District * Alliance Academy * Bret Harte Middle School (established 1930) * Claremont Middle S ...

Rosemount Middle School Independent School District 196 is a K-12 public school district located in the south suburban Twin Cities, near both Minneapolis and St. Paul in Minnesota. Also known as the Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District, District 196 serves appr ...

, in Rosemount, Minnesota *

Ridgely Middle School Ridgely Middle School is a Blue Ribbon-award-winning middle school that serves students in sixth through eighth grades as part of the Baltimore County Public Schools. This school serves students coming from elementary schools in Lutherville, Ti ...

, in Lutherville, Maryland

Elsewhere

* Rambhakta Memorial School in Banepa, Kavre, Nepal *

Reims Management School Reims Management School (RMS) was a business school or ''grande école'' in Reims, France, offering several specialized programs. It merged with Rouen Business School in 2013 to create NEOMA Business School. Founded in 1928, RMS was one of the few ...

, in Reims, France *

Robert May's School Robert May's School is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in the village of Odiham, Hampshire, England. All children in year 6 whose families live in the catchment area, and who attend named feeder schools in the a ...

, in Hampshire, England *

The Royal Masonic School for Girls The Royal Masonic School for Girls (RMS) is an independent school in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England, with day and boarding pupils. The school was instituted in 1788, with the aim of caring for the daughters of poor Freemasons. In 1978, t ...

, in Hertfordshire, England * Rutland Middle School, in British Columbia, Canada

Other organizations

Railway Mail Service The Railway Mail Service of the United States Post Office Department was a significant mail transportation service in the US from the mid-19th century until the mid-20th century. The RMS, or its successor the Postal Transportation Service (PTS), ...

, a former US mail transportation service *

Raytheon Missile Systems Raytheon Missiles & Defense (RMD) is one of four business segments of Raytheon Technologies. Headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, its president is Wes Kremer. The business produces a broad portfolio of advanced technologies, including air and missil ...

, a former company which manufactured missiles * ' ("Trades-Union Militants Grouping"), a political organization in Quebec, Canada, in the 1970s * Risk Management Solutions, a subsidiary of

Moody's Corporation Moody's Corporation, often referred to as Moody's, is an American business and financial services company. It is the holding company for Moody's Investors Service (MIS), an American credit rating agency, and Moody's Analytics (MA), an American p ...

Roads and Maritime Services ] Roads and Maritime Services (also known as Roads & Maritime Services) was an Statutory authority, agency of the New South Wales Government responsible for building and maintaining road infrastructure and managing the day-to-day compliance an ...

, a former agency of the New South Wales government, Australia *

Rotana Media Services Rotana Media Services also known by its initials RMS (or rms) is the media marketing and advertising wing of Rotana Group established in 2004 and provides advertising services and comprehensive media services to the various radio stations and televi ...

, the advertising and marketing wing of Rotana Group * Rotating Memory Systems, Inc., a defunct hard disk drive manufacturer * RMS, a prefix for

Royal Mail Ship Royal Mail Ship (sometimes Steam-ship or Steamer), usually seen in its abbreviated form RMS, is the ship prefix used for seagoing vessels that carry mail under contract to the British Royal Mail. The designation dates back to 1840. Any vessel de ...

s and aircraft, UK *

Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers The Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers, more commonly known as the Royal Miniature Society (RMS), is an art society founded in 1895 dedicated to upholding and continuing the tradition of miniature painting and sculpture, ...

, originally the Royal Miniatures Society, London

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

Rhabdomyosarcoma Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is a highly aggressive form of cancer that develops from mesenchymal cells that have failed to fully differentiate into myocytes of skeletal muscle. Cells of the tumor are identified as rhabdomyoblasts. There are four subt ...

, a cancer of connective tissues *

Rostral migratory stream The rostral migratory stream (RMS) is a specialized migratory route found in the brain of some animals along which neuronal precursors that originated in the subventricular zone (SVZ) of the brain migrate to reach the main olfactory bulb (OB ...

, one path that neuronal stem cells travel along to reach the olfactory bulb * Relapsing

Multiple Sclerosis Multiple (cerebral) sclerosis (MS), also known as encephalomyelitis disseminata or disseminated sclerosis, is the most common demyelinating disease, in which the insulating covers of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord are damaged. This d ...

Computing

Rate-monotonic scheduling In computer science, rate-monotonic scheduling (RMS) is a priority assignment algorithm used in real-time operating systems (RTOS) with a static-priority scheduling class. The static priorities are assigned according to the cycle duration of the job ...

, a scheduling technique in operating systems *

Record Management Services Record Management Services (RMS) are procedures in the VMS, RSTS/E, RT-11 and RSX-11M operating systems that programs may call to process files and records within files. Its file formats and procedures are similar to of those in some IBM access ...

, file-management processes in OpenVMS operating systems * Record Management System, a persistent storage mechanism available to some Java ME configurations * Rights Management Services, a component of MS Windows Server 2003

Other uses in science and technology

RMS (noise reduction) A Dolby noise-reduction system, or Dolby NR, is one of a series of noise reduction systems developed by Dolby Laboratories for use in analog audio tape recording. The first was '' Dolby A'', a professional broadband noise reduction ...

(), a Dolby-B-compatible compander in the former GDR in the 1980s * Reconfigurable Manufacturing System, designed for rapid change in its structure * Residual mean square, a measure of the difference between data and a model of that data *

Root mean square In mathematics and its applications, the root mean square of a set of numbers x_i (abbreviated as RMS, or rms and denoted in formulas as either x_\mathrm or \mathrm_x) is defined as the square root of the mean square (the arithmetic mean of the ...

, a measure of the magnitude of a varying quantity * Royal Microscopical Society thread, or ''society thread'', a

screw thread A screw thread, often shortened to thread, is a helical structure used to convert between rotational and linear movement or force. A screw thread is a ridge wrapped around a cylinder or cone in the form of a helix, with the former being called a ...

used for microscope objective lenses * " Watt RMS", an erroneous term for "average power" used in audio measurements

Other uses

* RMS (band), a British jazz/rock fusion band, formed in 1982 *

Richard Matthew Stallman Richard Matthew Stallman (; born March 16, 1953), also known by his initials, rms, is an American free software movement activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in such a manner that its users have the freedom to ...

, often referred to as "rms", a software freedom activist and computer programmer *

, the ship prefix used for seagoing vessels that carry mail under contract to the British Royal Mail * Resilient Multi-mission Space STaR Shot program, an Australian satellite defence program being developed by Airbus at

Lot Fourteen Lot Fourteen is a business and technology precinct at the eastern end of North Terrace in Adelaide city centre, South Australia. The site formerly accommodated the old Royal Adelaide Hospital, which was moved to a new building at the western e ...

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