RMS

RMS may refer to:

Country

• Republik Maluku Selatan (Republic of the South Moluccas), self-proclaimed republic in the Maluku Islands founded in 1950

Biology and medicine

• Rhabdomyosarcoma, a cancer of connective tissues
• Rostral migratory stream, one path that neuronal stem cells travel along to reach the olfactory bulb

Science and technology

• Root mean square, a measure of the magnitude of a varying quantity
  • "Watt RMS", an erroneous term for "average power" used in audio measurements
• Residual mean square, a measure of the difference between data and a model of that data
• Rate-monotonic scheduling, a scheduling technique in operating systems
• Reconfigurable Manufacturing System, designed for rapid change in its structure
• Record Management Services, file-management processes in OpenVMS operating systems
• Record Management System, a persistent storage mechanism available to some Java ME configurations
• Rights Management Services, a component of MS Windows Server 2003
• Royal Microscopical Society thread, or society thread, a screw thread used for microscope objective lenses

People, groups, and organizations

• Railway Mail Service, US mail transportation service until the mid-20th century
• Ramanujan Mathematical Society, a learned society founded in 1985 in India
• Richard Stallman, often referred to as "rms", software freedom activist and computer programmer
• Regroupement des militants syndicaux ("Trades-Union Militants Grouping"), a political organization in Quebec in the 1970s
• Roads and Maritime Services, agency of the New South Wales government responsible for transport by road and water
• Royal Medical Society, a learned society founded in 1737 at the University of Edinburgh Medical School
• Royal Microscopical Society, a learned society founded in 1839 in London, now headquartered in Oxford
• Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers, originally the Royal Miniatures Society, founded in 1896 in London
• RMS (band), a British jazz/rock fusion band, formed in 1982
• Russian Mineralogical Society, a learned society founded in 1817 in Saint Petersburg
• Russian Musical Society, a learned society founded in 1859 and disbanded in 1917

Companies

• Rotana Media Services, the advertising and marketing wing of Rotana Group
• RMS Communications, a broadband and cable TV component supplier
• Risk Management Solutions, subsidiary of Daily Mail and General Trust

Schools

• Radnor Middle School, in Radnor, Pennsylvania, US
• Reims Management School, in Reims, France
• Richland Middle School, in Richland Hills, Texas, US
• Robert May's School, in Hampshire, England
• Rocky Mountain semester, semester school in Leadville, Colorado, now called High Mountain Institute Semester
• Romulus Middle School, in Romulus, Michigan, US
• Roosevelt Middle School (Oakland, California), in Oakland, California, US
• Royal Masonic School, Hertfordshire, England
• Rice Middle School, in Plano, Texas, US
• Robinson Middle School, in Plano, Texas, US
• Rosemount Middle School, in Rosemount, Minnesota, US
• Riverwood Middle School, in Kingwood, Texas, US
• Redwood Middle School (Saratoga, California) in Saratoga, California, US
• Rambhakta Memorial School in Banepa, Kavre, Nepal

Transport

• Ramstein Air Base (IATA code RMS)
• Royal Mail Ship or Steamer, prefix for ships under contract to the UK Royal Mail
• Roads and Maritime Services, agency of the New South Wales government responsible for transport by road and water