Res

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Res or RES may refer to:

• Resistencia International Airport (IATA airport code: RES)
• RES (magazine), a bimonthly media lifestyle magazine
  • RESFest, a digital short film festival run by the magazine
• RES (currency), a local currency used in Belgium, France, and Spain
• The Review of Economic Studies, a quarterly academic journal
• Russian and Eurasian Security Network
• Res (singer), American singer
• RES - The School for Renewable Energy Science
• Renewable Electricity Standard, a legal requirement for a system of regulated utilities to derive a minimum fraction of electric power from renewable sources
• Renewable Energy Sources, ways to produce power that deplete extremely slowly (such as sunlight)
• Renewable energy storage (RES)
• Renewable Energy Systems, a UK-based renewable energy company
• The Reticuloendothelial system, part of the immune system
• 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
• Rail Express Systems, the mail sector of British Rail up to privatisation
• Spanish Supercomputing Network (Spanish: Red Española de Supercomputación)
• Red-eared slider, a species of aquatic turtle commonly kept as a pet
• res, a predefined intranetwork protocol that is used for internal database request. (other predfined protocol include: mailto)
• Royal Economic Society the UK's professional association promoting the study of economic science
• Royal Entomological Society
• Reddit Enhancement Suite, a suite of extensions for Reddit available as an extension for several browsers
• Residue (complex analysis), in mathematics

Res is also a very common Latin word meaning "thing",

• Object (philosophy)
• Entity
• as the first word of several Latin phrases:
  • Res divina (service of the gods)
  • Res Extensa Descartes' physical world
  • 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
  • Ad rem (to the matter)
  • De rerum natura, a poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius
  • Ubi re vera whereas, in reality...

See also

• Rez (disambiguation)
• RE5 (disambiguation)
• Reticuloendothelial system