RAS

Contents 1 People and titles 2 Locations 3 Societies and groups 4 Medical terms 5 Science and technology 6 Transport 7 Fiction and entertainment 8 Other uses 9 See also 10 Notes

RAS or Ras may refer to:

People and titles

• Hans Ras (1926–2003), Dutch philologist
• Registered Accessibility Specialist
• Rundfunk Anstalt Südtirol, a public broadcaster whose purpose is to relay programming from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland to the German-speaking population in the province of Bolzano, Italy
• Ras, an Ethiopian aristocratic and court title, as in Ras Tafari
• Ras, an honorific taken from the Ethiopian and used by members of the Rastafari movement

Locations

• Stari Ras, first capital city of medieval Serbian state of Raska
• “Ras” is the Arabic for a “head,” hence a cape, promontory or headland; and a common word in Arabic place names (see also Ras al-Ayn):^[1]
  • Al Ras, in Dubai
  • Al-Ras, in Palestina (West Bank)
  • Ras al-Amud, neighbourhood in Jerusalem
  • Ra's al-'Ayn, in Syria
  • Ras al-Ein, in Israel
  • Ras Al Khaima, one of the emirates of the United Arab Emirates
  • Ras Al Khor, wildlife sanctuary in Dubai
  • Ras al Hadd, in Oman
  • Ras al Helal, in Libya
  • Ras Al-Zour, in Saudi Arabia
  • Ras Tanura, city in eastern Saudi Arabia

Societies and groups

• Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, a society to further study into topics relating to science, literature, and the arts in relation to Asia
• IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, IEEE
• IEEE I-RAS, the Italian Chapter of the Robotic and Automation Society
• Royal Astronomical Society, a British society founded in 1802
• Royal Adelaide Show, an Australian agricultural show
• Russian Academy of Sciences
• Russian Automobile Society, a member of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile

Medical terms

• Ras subfamily, a subfamily of the Ras superfamily, involved in the MAPK/ERK pathway of signal transduction (abbr. stands for rat sarcoma)
• Ras superfamily, a superfamily of proteins involved in cellular signal transduction (abbr. stands for rat sarcoma)
• Renal artery stenosis, anatomical term for the narrowing of the renal artery
• Renin-angiotensin system, hormone system that regulates blood pressure
• Reticular activating system, a neurological system in the brain
• RAS, for a recurrent aphthous ulcer
• Rhythmic auditory stimulation
• Retinoic acid syndrome
• RAS - Responder apathy syndrome

Science and technology

• RAS, for Registration, Admission and Status, a telephony term
• Radio Access Station, apparatus in a portable internet system (Such as IEEE 802.16e)
• .ras, the native raster format of the SunOS Unix operating system
• Reliability, Availability and Serviceability, properties of information technology systems
• Remote Access Service, combination of hardware and software for remote access to computing systems especially for networking
• Row Address Strobe, one of four control signal types in asynchronous DRAM
• Reusable Asset Specification, OMG Standard for packaging digital artifacts
• Reflection anisotropy spectroscopy, an optical surface analysis tool

Transport

• Roundabout Appreciation Society
• RAS, for Replenishment at Sea, a method of Underway replenishment without a ship needing to stop.
• ROS or RAS, for Required On/At Site, a way to state the date when a deliverable is required on a construction site

Fiction and entertainment

• RAS Records, a reggae record label
• Ras, or Ra's, nickname for the fictional Batman villain Ra's al Ghul
• Rescue Aid Society, a fictional society in the 1977 film The Rescuers
• A nickname used by the Senior Knight of Inferia, Tales_of_Eternia#Characters Rassius Luine, from the PS1 game Tales of Eternia
• Royal Adelaide Show
• Rás 1 and Rás 2, Icelandic radio stations

Other uses

• Rail Adapter System; another name for the Picatinny rail system used for mounting accessories on modern firearms
• RAS Commonly used abbreviation in Law Enforcement for Reasonable Articulable Suspicion
• RAS syndrome, Redundant Acronym Syndrome syndrome
• Rás Tailteann, an annual cycling race in Ireland
• Regimental aviation squadron
• Recirculating Aquaculture System
• RAS replenishment at sea.
• RAS Radial Arm Saw
• The Ren & Stimpy Show

See also

• Ra (disambiguation)
• RAH (disambiguation)

Notes

1. ^  Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Ras". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

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