RS may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

RS Group RS Group () is a Thai entertainment and media company formed in 1982. History Businesses RS Music There are eight recording labels under RS Music, covering Thai pop (String (Thai pop), string) and Thai country music (luk thung) as well as Roc ...

, entertainment & media company in Thailand *

RS Group plc RS Group plc (formerly Electrocomponents plc) is a distributor of industrial and Electrical engineering, electrical products based in London, England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Histor ...

, British electronics & industrial distributor in England with brands including RS Components and RS Americas, Inc * RS Infotainment, Indian film production and distribution company * RS Productions, defunct Australian television and radio production company *

Relief Society The Relief Society is a philanthropic and educational women's organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It was founded in 1842 in Nauvoo, Illinois, United States, and has more than 7 million members in over 1 ...

, an official auxiliary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) * République solidaire, a French political party * Roberval and Saguenay Railway (reporting mark RS) * Russian Party (Serbia) (''Ruska stranka''), a political party in Serbia

Sport

RS Sailing RS Sailing is an international designer, builder and supplier of sailboat design and manufacturing, sailboats and dinghy sailing, dinghies and associated goods and services supported by a worldwide dealer network and class associations. The cur ...

, an international designer and builder of sailboats and dinghies * Queens Park Rangers F.C., a professional football club from Shepherd's Bush, London, commonly nicknamed 'The Rs'

Places

Republic of Serbia , image_flag = Flag of Serbia.svg , national_motto = , image_coat = Coat of arms of Serbia.svg , national_anthem = () , image_map = , map_caption = Location of Serbia (gree ...

(ISO 3166-1 code RS), country * Republic of Slovenia, country *

Republika Srpska Republika Srpska ( sr-Cyrl, Република Српска, ; also referred to as the Republic of Srpska or Serb Republic) is one of the two Political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, entities within Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other bein ...

, one of the two political entities that compose the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina *

Republika Srpska (1992–1995) Republika Srpska (RS; sr-Cyrl, Република Српска, , ) was an unrecognized geopolitical entity and a self-proclaimed Serb quasi-state in Southeastern Europe under the control of the Army of Republika Srpska during the Bosnian W ...

Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, ; ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative units of Brazil#List, fifth-most populous state and the List of Brazilian s ...

(ISO 3166-2 code BR-RS), Brazilian state

Science and technology

* R/S classification, of the

chirality Chirality () is a property of asymmetry important in several branches of science. The word ''chirality'' is derived from the Greek (''kheir''), "hand", a familiar chiral object. An object or a system is ''chiral'' if it is distinguishable fro ...

of a molecule * ''RS'', a class of

racemic mixture In chemistry, a racemic mixture or racemate () is a mixture that has equal amounts (50:50) of left- and right-handed enantiomers of a chiral molecule or salt. Racemic mixtures are rare in nature, but many compounds are produced industrially as r ...

* Radio Science, an instrument aboard MESSENGER space probe *

Remote sensing Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an physical object, object or phenomenon without making physical contact with the object, in contrast to in situ or on-site observation. The term is applied especially to acquiring inform ...

Risk and Safety Statements In simple terms, risk is the possibility of something bad happening. Risk involves uncertainty about the effects/implications of an activity with respect to something that humans value (such as health, well-being, wealth, property or the environ ...

(R/S statements), a system of hazard codes and phrases for labeling dangerous chemicals

Biology and medicine

Resistant starch Resistant starch (RS) is starch, including its degradation products, that escapes from digestion in the small intestine of healthy individuals. Resistant starch occurs naturally in foods, but it can also be added as part of dried raw foods, or u ...

, indigestible starches (and sugars from starches) *

Roemheld syndrome Roemheld syndrome (RS), or gastrocardiac syndrome, or gastric cardiac syndrome or Roemheld–Techlenburg–Ceconi syndrome or gastric-cardia, was a medical syndrome first coined by Ludwig von Roemheld (1871–1938) describing a cluster of cardiov ...

, a complex of gastrocardiac symptoms *

Stomatal resistance In botany, a stoma (: stomata, from Greek ''στόμα'', "mouth"), also called a stomate (: stomates), is a pore found in the epidermis of leaves, stems, and other organs, that controls the rate of gas exchange between the internal air space ...

(r_s), of leaves * rs, prefix of a

DbSNP The Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Database (dbSNP) is a free public archive for genetic variation within and across different species developed and hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in collaboration with the Natio ...

record ID number e.g. rs206437 *

Respiratory syncytial virus Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), also called human respiratory syncytial virus (hRSV) and human orthopneumovirus, is a virus that causes infections of the respiratory tract. It is a negative-sense, single-stranded RNA virus. Its name is derive ...

, a species of virus

Computing

* .rs, the internet country code top-level domain for Republic of Serbia * .rs, a filename extension for

Rust Rust is an iron oxide, a usually reddish-brown oxide formed by the reaction of iron and oxygen in the catalytic presence of water or air moisture. Rust consists of hydrous iron(III) oxides (Fe2O3·nH2O) and iron(III) oxide-hydroxide (FeO(OH) ...

source code *

Recommended Standard (EIA) The Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA; until 1997 Electronic Industries Association) was an American standards and trade organization composed as an alliance of trade associations for electronics manufacturers in the United States. They dev ...

, e.g. RS-232 * Record Separator, in the C0 control code *

Reed–Solomon error correction In information theory and coding theory, Reed–Solomon codes are a group of error-correcting codes that were introduced by Irving S. Reed and Gustave Solomon in 1960. They have many applications, including consumer technologies such as MiniDiscs, ...

Vehicles

* Rally Sport, a designation applied to

rallying Rallying is a wide-ranging form of motorsport with various competitive motoring elements such as speed tests (sometimes called "rally racing" in United States), navigation tests, or the ability to reach waypoints or a destination at a prescribed ...

cars * (German for "racing sport"), a designation used for cars such as the Audi RS models ** Porsche 911 Carrera RS ** Porsche 911 GT3 RS * Ford Team RS, Ford Motor Company's European performance car and motorsport division *

Renault Sport Renault Sport () or Renaultsport, was a motorsport, performance and special vehicles division for Renault-badged cars and later a sub-badge of Renault cars managed by Automobiles Alpine, Alpine. The first Renault Sport was officially established ...

(R.S.), performance and motorsport division of automobile manufacturer Renault

Other uses

Rupee sign The rupee sign "₨" is a currency sign used to represent the monetary unit of account in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Mauritius, Seychelles, and formerly in India. It resembles, and is often written as, the Latin character sequence "Rs", of w ...

- Rs is used to denote currencies named rupee. *

Pakistani rupee The Pakistani rupee (; ISO code: PKR; symbol: ; abbreviation: Re (singular) and Rs (plural)) is the official currency in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The issuance of the currency is controlled by the State Bank of Pakistan. It was officia ...

(plural currency symbol Rs) * RS (rapper) (2000–2019), Dutch drill rapper * Report Short, a type of US Congressional Research Service Report * Retail services specialist, an occupational rating in the U.S. Navy *

Rolling Stone ''Rolling Stone'' is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, California, in 1967 by Jann Wenner and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason. The magazine was first known fo ...

magazine * ''

RuneScape ''RuneScape'' is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by Jagex, released in January 2001. ''RuneScape'' was originally a browser game built with the Java (programming language), Java progr ...

'', a fantasy MMORPG by Jagex {{disambiguation