3-letter words containing r
- rsg — rate support grant
- rsh — Remote shell. A Berkeley Unix networking command to execute a given command on a remote host, passing it input and receiving its output. Rsh communicates with a daemon on the remote host. It is sometimes called remsh to avoid confusion with the restricted shell, also called "rsh".
- rsi — 1. (medical) overuse strain injury. 2. (company) Research Systems, Inc..
- rsj — rolled-steel joist
- rsl — RAISE Specification Language
- rsm — regimental sergeant major
- rsn — Real Soon Now
- rss — Rich Site Summary
- rsu — An RSU is a grant valued in terms of company stock that takes the form of a promise that employees will receive stock in the future either as shares or the cash equivalent.
- rsv — Revised Standard Version (of the Bible)
- rta — road traffic accident
- rtc — Road Transport Corporation
- rtf — Rich Text Format
- rti — return from interrupt
- rtl — 1. (hardware) Resistor-Transistor Logic. 2. (language) Register Transfer Language.
- rtm — 1. [Usenet] Read The Manual. Politer variant of RTFM. 2. Robert T. Morris Jr. The perpetrator of the great Internet worm of 1988 (see Great Worm); villain to many, naive hacker gone wrong to a few. Morris claimed that the worm that brought the Internet to its knees was a benign experiment that got out of control as the result of a coding error. After the storm of negative publicity that followed this blunder, Morris's user name on ITS was hacked from RTM to RTFM.
- rtn — An RTN is the code that identifies a financial institution on a check or transfer.
- rtp — Real-Time Transport Protocol
- rtr — Royal Tank Regiment
- rts — 1. (operating system) run-time system. 2. (programming) return from subroutine.
- rtt — round-trip time
- rtv — RTV is an instruction authorizing the return of unwanted or damaged goods to the seller, the cost of which will then be refunded to the buyer.
- rub — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- ruc — (the former) Royal Ulster Constabulary, now superseded by the Police Service of Northern Ireland
- rud — the colour red, or redness
- rue — to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly: to rue the loss of opportunities.
- rug — a thick fabric for covering part of a floor, often woven of wool and often having an oblong shape with a border design. Compare carpet.
- rum — Arabic name of Rome, once used to designate the Byzantine Empire.
- run — execution
- rus — Russia (international car registration)
- rut — the periodically recurring sexual excitement of the deer, goat, sheep, etc.
- rwa — Rwanda (international car registration)
- rwd — rear-wheel drive
- rwp — Remote Write Protocol
- rwy — railway
- rya — a handwoven Scandinavian rug with a thick pile and usually a strong, colorful design.
- rye — a city in SE New York, on Long Island Sound.
- sar — Special Administrative Region (of China)
- sbr — Spectral Band Replication
- scr — (in British universities) senior common room
- ser — a unit of weight in India, varying in value but usually 1/40 of a maund: the government ser is divided into 80 tolas of 180 English grains and equals nearly 2 pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois (950 grams).
- shr — share(s)
- sir — a respectful or formal term of address used to a man: No, sir.
- skr — Sanskrit
- slr — single-lens reflex
- snr — signal-to-noise ratio
- spr — Society for Psychical Research
- sqr — (database, language) A fourth generation language for the creation of reports from databases. SQR is interpreted to dynamically generate SQL queries and format the results. Originally a Sybase product, it was then sold to MITI, who subsequently changed their name to SQRIBE. SQR Server supports native database access for all major DBMSs and the use of platform independent Java code.
- sra — Señora
- srb — Serbia (international car registration)