RAS
RAS or Ras may refer to:
People and titles
- Hans Ras (1926–2003), Dutch philologist
- RAS (musician), stage name of American singer Nicholas Furlong (b. 1986)
- Ras (title), an Ethiopian aristocratic and court title, as in Ras Tafari
- Ras, members of the Rastafari movement
- Ras (fascism), regional fascist leader in Italy
- Registered Accessibility Specialist
Organizations
- Rajasthan Administrative Service, India
- Remote Astronomical Society Observatory of New Mexico
- Richardson Aventist School, now North Dallas Adventist Academy
- 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
- Royal Astronomical Society, a British learned society founded in 1820
- Royal Adelaide Show, an Australian agricultural show
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
- IEEE I-RAS, the Italian Chapter of the Robotic and Automation Society
Places
- Stari Ras, first capital city of medieval Serbian state of Raska
- Ras-e Jonubi, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
- Ras-e Sharqi, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
Science
- Biology
- Ras subfamily, a family of signalling proteins
- Ras superfamily, a superfamily of signalling proteins
- Recurrent aphthous ulcer
- Renal artery stenosis, anatomical term for the narrowing of the renal artery
- Renin-angiotensin system, hormone system that regulates blood pressure
- Responder apathy syndrome
- Reticular activating system, a neurological system in the brain concerning sleep and arousal
- Retinoic acid syndrome
- SAR supergroup, a clade named after the acronym of its constituent group: Stramenopiles, Alveolates, and Rhizaria
- Technology
- .ras, the native raster format of the SunOS Unix operating system
- RAS algorithm, for iterative proportional fitting the cell values of a matrix to fit column and row totals
- Radial arm saw
- Radio Access Station, apparatus in a portable internet system such as IEEE 802.16e
- Recirculating aquaculture system
- Registration, Admission and Status, a telephony term
- 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
- Reusable Asset Specification, OMG Standard for packaging digital artifacts
- Row Address Strobe, one of four control signal types in asynchronous dynamic random-access memory
Transport
- Railway Air Services, a British company
- Replenishment at sea, a method of transferring fuel, munitions, and stores from one ship to another while under way
- Roundabout Appreciation Society
Media
- RAS Records, a reggae record label
- Ras, or Ra's, nickname for the fictional Batman villain Ra's al Ghul
- Rassius "Ras" Luine, a character from Tales of Eternia
- Rás 1 and Rás 2, Icelandic radio stations
- Rundfunk Anstalt Südtirol, Tyrolese radio station
Other uses
- Ras cheese
- RAS syndrome, redundant acronym syndrome syndrome
- Rás Tailteann, an annual cycling race in Ireland
- Reasonable Articulable Suspicion, in United States law, a legal standard of proof that is less than probable cause
See also
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