Res (disambiguation)
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Res or RES may refer to:
- RES (magazine), a bimonthly media lifestyle magazine
- RESFest, a digital short film festival run by the magazine
- Review of Economic Studies
- Res, an R&B singer
- RES - Registrazioni e Suoni (English: RES — Recordings and Sounds), an Italian record label focusing on experimental music
- RES - The School for Renewable Energy Science
- Renewable Energy Sources, ways to produce power that deplete extremely slowly (such as sunlight)
- The Reticuloendothelial system, part of the immune system
- An abbreviation of Resonance used in conjunction with Sound synthesis
- Randomized Exchange Sort (or bogosort), an extremely inefficient sorting algorithm that is not guaranteed to terminate
- Railway Enthusiasts Society, a railway society in New Zealand
- A Red Eared Slider
- Rail Express Systems, the mail sector of British Rail up to privatisation.
Res is also a very common Latin word meaning "thing", and as such is the first word of several Latin phrases:
- Res gestae (Things done)
- Res inter alios acta (A thing done between others)
- Res ipsa loquitur (The thing speaks for itself)
- Res judicata (A matter [already] judged)
- Res nullius (An unowned thing)
- Res publica (A public thing), the origin of the word republic
- Res Extensa, Descartes' physical world.