RDS may refer to:
Broadcasting
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Radio Data System, a communications-protocol standard used with commercial FM
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Radio Dimensione Suono
Born in 1978, it is the Radio with an Italian national radio station that broadcasts Pop music and Italian music.
It is also broadcast on SKY Italia channel 700 and was also broadcast for few months on Worldspace.
Weekday programming
RDS's prim ...
, an Italian radio station
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RDS Info, a sister sports news channel to Réseau des sports
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Réseau des sports, a French-language television network in Canada
Companies and organizations
* Research Data Services (RDS), part of
Australian Research Data Commons
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Research Defence Society
The Research Defence Society was a British scientific society and lobby group, founded by Stephen Paget, in 1908, to fight against the anti-vivisectionist "enemies of reason" at the beginning of the 20th century. At the end of 2008, after being a ...
, a former British lobby group
* Retained Duty System, used by a
Retained Firefighter to distinguish between whole time fire service
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Rough Draft Studios, an animation production studio in Glendale, California
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Royal Dublin Society
The Royal Dublin Society (RDS) ( ga, Cumann Ríoga Bhaile Átha Cliath) is an Irish philanthropic organisation and members club which was founded as the 'Dublin Society' on 25 June 1731 with the aim to see Ireland thrive culturally and economi ...
, for promoting agriculture, arts, industry, and science in Ireland
* Royal Dutch Shell, the former name of
Shell plc
Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. Shell is a public limited company with a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and secondary listings on Euronext Amsterdam and the New Yo ...
Computing
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Amazon Relational Database Service
Amazon Relational Database Service (or Amazon RDS) is a distributed relational database service by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It is a web service running "in the cloud" designed to simplify the setup, operation, and scaling of a relational data ...
, Amazon's cloud-based Relational Database Service
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Random dot stereogram, a form of 3-D image
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Reliable Datagram Sockets, a computer-networking protocol
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Remote Data Services, a deprecated component of Microsoft Data Access Components
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Remote Desktop Services
Remote Desktop Services (RDS), known as Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008 and earlier, is one of the components of Microsoft Windows that allow a user to initiate and control an interactive session on a remote computer or virtual machine ...
, Microsoft's mechanism for remote access
* Research Data Services (RDS), part of
Australian Research Data Commons
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Romania Data Systems, an ISP in Romania
Science and Medicine
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Rate-determining step, the slowest step of a chemical reaction
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Reflectance difference spectroscopy, a spectroscopic technique
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Reward deficiency syndrome
Kenneth Blum (born August 8, 1939) is an American scientist who has studied neuropsychopharmacology and genetics. Until 1995 he was a professor of Pharmacology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Blum originated the t ...
, a term coined by neuroscientist Kenneth Blum
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Respiratory distress syndrome (disambiguation), a lung disease with two forms
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Relational developmental systems
Relational developmental systems (RDS) is a developmental psychological metatheory and conceptual framework. It is an extension of developmental systems theory that is based on the view that relationism is a superior alternative to Cartesian mecha ...
, a psychological metatheory
People
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Ron DeSantis (1978 - ), American politician
Weaponry
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Soviet nuclear tests
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RDS-1, 1949, known as Joe-1 in the United States
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RDS-2, 1951
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RDS-3 RDS-3 was the third atomic bomb developed by the Soviet Union in 1951, after the famous RDS-1 and RDS-2. It was called ''Marya'' in the military. The bomb had a composite design with a plutonium core inside a uranium shell, providing an explosive p ...
, 1951
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RDS-4, 1953
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RDS-5, 1953
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RDS-6, 1953
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RDS-9, 1955
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RDS-37
RDS-37 was the Soviet Union's first two-stage hydrogen bomb, first tested on 22 November 1955. The weapon had a nominal yield of approximately 3 megatons. It was scaled down to 1.6 megatons for the live test.
Leading to the RDS-37
The RDS-3 ...
, 1955
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RDS-220
The Tsar Bomba () (code name: ''Ivan'' or ''Vanya''), also known by the alphanumerical designation "AN602", was a Thermonuclear weapon, thermonuclear aerial bomb, and the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested. Overall, the Soviet ...
, 1961, known as "Tsar Bomba"
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Red dot sight, type of firearm reflector sight
Other
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RDS Arena, a stadium within the grounds of the Royal Dublin Society
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Rajolibanda Diversion Scheme
"Rajaolibanda Diversion Scheme" or "RDS" is an irrigation project located across River Tungabhadra in Jogulamba Gadwal district of Telangana , Kurnool district of Andhra pradesh and Raichur district of Karnataka. It is an inter-state barrage on ...
, an irrigation project in Mahbubunagar district in Karnataka, India
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Retiree Drug Subsidy The Retiree Drug Subsidy Program is a program offered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to reimburse health plan sponsors (municipalities, unions and private employers) for a portion of their eligible expenses for retiree prescri ...
, a program offered by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Reddish South railway station
Reddish South railway station is a stop on the Stockport–Stalybridge Line in Reddish, Stockport, England. The station, used by only 26 passengers in 2013/14, is one of the quietest on the UK rail network. From May 1992 until May 2018, it w ...
, England has the National Rail station code "RDS"
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