Rho (disambiguation)
Rho (Ρρ) is a letter of the Greek alphabet.
Rho may also refer to:
Symbols
- in mathematics
- Spectral radius in a spherical coordinate system
- in physics
- Density of a material
- Volume charge density
- Resistivity of a material
- Rho meson,
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- in chemistry
- The reaction constant in the Hammett equation
- in biology
- Rho factor protein in RNA transcription termination
- Rho family of GTPases, small GTPase enzymes important in migration and stress fibre formation
- Subjective night, the inactivity period of a Circadian rhythm
- Ecology, population damping ratio where ρ = λ1 / |λ2|.
- in economics
- Rho (finance), in Quantitative Finance, a first order derivative of an option pricing formula versus the rate of a risk-free investment.
- in statistics
- Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, a non-parametric measure of correlation
- Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, a common measure of the correlation between two variables
Places
- Rho (Italy), a town near Milan, Italy (not to be confused with Ro, Italy)
- Rho Island, a small Greek island near Kastellorizo
- Rho River, a tributary of the Dora di Bardonecchia
- Rhodes International Airport, "Diagoras", a Greek airport whose IATA code is RHO
Other
- Giacomo Rho, Italian Jesuit missionary
- Right-Hand Opponent (RHO), in Contract Bridge
- Rho Cassiopeiae, a yellow hypergiant in the constellation Cassiopeia
- Red Hot Organization, a charity organization dedicated to raising awareness of HIV/AIDS
- Pollard's rho algorithm, an integer factorization algorithm, effective for finding small factors
- Pollard's rho algorithm for logarithms, an algorithm for solving the discrete logarithm problem
See also
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