RMS

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RMS may refer to any of the following:

[edit] Things

• Railway Mail Service, US mail transportation service until the mid-20th century
• Royal Mail Ship or Steamer, ship prefix for vessels that carry mail under contract to the British Royal Mail
• Royal Melbourne Show
• Royal Meteorological Society
• Royal Society of Miniature Painters Sculptors and Gravers, known as the Royal Miniatures Society
• Russ Martin Show
• Relocation management services (employee relocation firms)
• Royal Microscopical Society

[edit] People

• Richard M. Stallman, software developer and founder of the GNU project, the Free Software Foundation and the free software movement.

[edit] Science and technology

• Root mean square, a concept frequently encountered in statistics and electronics
• RMS granularity, a method of measuring photographic grain, developed by Kodak
• Rate-monotonic scheduling, scheduling technique in operating systems
• Realtime Music Solutions, the "Virtual Orchestra" company @ www.rms.biz
• Record Management Services, in OpenVMS
• Record Management System, a persistent storage mechanism available to some J2ME configurations.
• Remote Manipulator System, the arm on the Space Shuttle over its payload bay
• Retail Management System , a software application written by Microsoft.
• Rights Management Services, a component of MS Windows Server 2003 used to restrict access to documents.
• Risk Management Solutions, a California-based company that develops catastrophe modeling software.

[edit] Schools

• Richland Middle School, located in Richland Hills, Texas, USA
• Robert May's School, in Hampshire, England
• Royal Masonic School, Hertfordshire, England
• Readington Middle School, Readington, New Jersey
• Romulus Middle School, in Romulus, Michigan

[edit] Organizations

• Republik Maluku Selatan, an organization striving for a free and independent South Moluccas in Indonesia
• RMS Aquaculture, Inc., an American pet store chain