ROA may refer to:

Sports and Arts

Racehorse Owners Association The Racehorse Owners Association (ROA) is a British horse racing organisation that promotes and protects the interests of racehorse owners in Great Britain. As one of the British Horseracing Authority's (BHA) shareholders, the ROA play a cent ...

, a British horse racing organisation * Refugee Olympics Athletes, a selection of

refugees A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a displaced person who has crossed national borders and who cannot or is unwilling to return home due to well-founded fear of persecution.

who will be competing under the

Olympic Olympic or Olympics may refer to Sports Competitions * Olympic Games, international multi-sport event held since 1896 ** Summer Olympic Games ** Winter Olympic Games * Ancient Olympic Games, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece b ...

flag at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

* Revolt On Antares, a science-fiction themed microgame designed by Tom Moldvay and produced by TSR in 1981 *

Rules of Acquisition In the fictional '' Star Trek'' universe, the Rules of Acquisition are a collection of sacred business proverbs of the ultra-capitalist race known as the Ferengi. The first mention of rules in the ''Star Trek'' universe was in " The Nagus", a ...

, in the fictional Star Trek universe, a set of guidelines intended to ensure the profitability of businesses owned by members of the ultra-capitalist alien race known as Ferengi *'' X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse'', a video/computer game *''

Rivals of Aether ''Rivals of Aether'' is an indie platform fighter video game created by Dan Fornace, and released for Microsoft Windows in March 2017, for Xbox One in August 2017, and for Nintendo Switch on September 24, 2020. It received positive reception fro ...

'', a 2017 fighting game

People

ROA (artist) ROA (born c. 1976) is a graffiti and street artist from Ghent, Belgium. He has created works on the streets of cities across Europe, the United States, Australia, Asia, New Zealand and Africa. ROA generally paints wild or urban animals a ...

(born c. 1975), pseudonym of a Belgian graffiti artist known for his large realistic depictions of animals in black-and-white * ROA Crewe-Milnes (1858–1945), a British statesman and writer

Government

ROA Time ROA Time is the official time of Spain. It is established by ROA, the Royal Institute and Observatory of the ''Armada'' (Armada being the name of the Spanish Navy in Spanish), at San Fernando, Cádiz. Broadcasting methods ROA broadcasts the ...

, the official time of Spain established by The Royal Institute and Observatory of the Spanish Navy in San Fernando, Cádiz *

Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (c.53) of the UK Parliament enables some criminal convictions to be ignored after a rehabilitation period. Its purpose is that people do not have a lifelong blot on their records because of a relatively mi ...

, United Kingdom act that enables some criminal convictions to be ignored after a rehabilitation period

Military

Reserve Officers Association The ROA (d/b/a Reserve Organization of America) is a professional association of commissioned officers, non-commissioned officers, former officers, enlisted and spouses of the uniformed services of the United States, primarily with the Reserve an ...

, a professional association of officers, former officers, and spouses of all the uniformed services of the United States *

Russian Liberation Army The Russian Liberation Army; russian: Русская освободительная армия, ', abbreviated as (), also known as the Vlasov army after its commander Andrey Vlasov, was a collaborationist formation, primarily composed of Rus ...

(''РОА'' in cyrillic letters, or ROA), a group of predominantly Russian forces subordinated to the Nazi German high command during World War II

Finance

Return on assets The return on assets (ROA) shows the percentage of how profitable a company's assets are in generating revenue. ROA can be computed as below: :\mathrm = \frac This number tells you what the company can do with what it has, ''i.e.'' how many dolla ...

, a financial metric *

Real Options Analysis Real options valuation, also often termed real options analysis,Adam Borison ( Stanford University)''Real Options Analysis: Where are the Emperor's Clothes?'' (ROV or ROA) applies option valuation techniques to capital budgeting decisions.Campb ...

, option valuation techniques for capital budgeting decisions

Science and medicine

Raman optical activity Raman optical activity (ROA) is a vibrational spectroscopic technique that is reliant on the difference in intensity of Raman scattered right and left circularly polarised light due to molecular chirality. History of Raman optical activity ...

, a vibrational spectroscopic technique * Right occipito-anterior, a cephalic vertex presentation in childbirth where the fetus is in a longitudinal lie and the head enters the pelvis first * Roaccutane, a medication used mostly for cystic acne and in chemotherapy *

Route of administration A route of administration in pharmacology and toxicology is the way by which a medication, drug, fluid, poison, or other substance is taken into the body. Routes of administration are generally classified by the location at which the substance i ...

, in pharmacology and toxicology, the path by which a drug, fluid, poison, or other substance is taken into the body * Route Origin Authorisation (Internet routing), a cryptographically signed entry in IP registry databases that specifies the authorized source AS of a certain network *

Rutgers Optimality Archive Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was a ...

, an archive of work in Optimality Theory managed by

Eric Bakovic The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, or Eirik is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization). The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Norse ''* ain ...

Schools

Retford Oaks Academy Retford Oaks Academy is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in the market town of Retford, Nottinghamshire, England, situated in the district of Bassetlaw. Academic performance The school has improved from a poor starting ...

, a secondary school with academy status in the market town of Retford, Nottinghamshire, England *

River Oaks Academy River Oaks Academy is a private school at 10600 Richmond Avenue in the Westchase district of Houston, Texas, United States. The school covers grades Kindergarten through 12. History The school opened in 1988. In the 1990s, after voters rejected ...

, a private kindergarten through 12th grade school in the Westchase district of Houston, Texas *

Other uses

Peugeot ROA The Peugeot ROA or RD is an Iranian made car (by Iran Khodro Co). It is a developed version of the Peugeot RD1600. The car is a combination of Paykan and Peugeot 405. The body of ROA is a copy from Peugeot 405 and its engine and chassis are dev ...

, an Iranian made car *

Roanoke Regional Airport Roanoke may refer to: Places *Roanoke Colony, a former English colony that mysteriously disappeared *Roanoke Island, the location of the Roanoke colony in present-day North Carolina *Roanoke River, flowing through Virginia and North Carolina and e ...

in Roanoke, Virginia, USA, IATA code *

Rear Occupant Alert Rear Occupant Alert (ROA) is motor vehicle manufacturer Hyundai Motor Company's automated vehicle alert system to detect the presence of an occupant in the rear seat of a passenger motor vehicle. The basic system uses door logic. If a rear door is ...

(a warning when the door is closed with people left in the vehicle) *

Resource-oriented architecture In software engineering, a resource-oriented architecture (ROA) is a style of software architecture and programming paradigm for supportive designing and developing software in the form of Internetworking of System resource, resources with "Represen ...

, a style of software architecture and programming paradigm for designing and developing software *

Reformed Armenian Orthography The Armenian orthography reform occurred between 1922 and 1924 in Soviet Armenia and was partially reviewed in 1940. Its main features were neutralization of classical etymological writing and the adjustment of phonetic realization and writing. Th ...

, a spelling reform of the Armenian alphabet in 1922–1924 * Ruger Old Army, a black-powder percussion revolver introduced in 1972 by the Sturm, Ruger company *

Republic of Artsakh Artsakh, officially the Republic of Artsakh () or the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (),, is a list of states with limited recognition, breakaway state in the South Caucasus whose territory is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan ...

, unrecognized state in Southern Caucasus * Route Origination Authorization, proof of authorization to announce a route for an IP prefix