RD
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Rd or RD may refer to:
Media and entertainment
- Radiant Dawn, a tactics, turn based strategy RPG for the Wii
- Radical Dreamers, a text-based role playing game on the Satellaview made in 1996
- Ratchet: DeadlockedRatchet: DeadlockedRatchet: Deadlocked is a platform game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony. Released for the PlayStation 2 in 2005...
, the fourth game in the Ratchet and Clank series - Radio DisneyRadio DisneyRadio Disney is a radio network based in Burbank, California and headquartered out of the Disney Channel headquarters on West Alameda Ave., from where it has been based since November 2008. Prior to that, the network was based in Dallas, Texas...
, a California-based radio network with music and other content targeted to young people - Reasonable DoubtReasonable DoubtReasonable Doubt is the debut album of American rapper Jay-Z, released June 25, 1996 on Roc-A-Fella Records in the United States and on Northwestside Records in the United Kingdom. The album features production by DJ Premier, Ski, Knobody and Clark Kent, and guest appearances from Memphis Bleek,...
, rapper Jay-Z's debut album - Real DriveReal Driveis an anime TV series, created by Production I.G and Masamune Shirow. Real Drive is produced in collaboration with broadcaster Nippon Television , and premiered in Japan on NTV on 8 April 2008.-Storyline and setting:...
, an anime by Production I.G - RD, a fictional character in the anime Zoids: FuzorsZoids Fuzorsis an anime series, linked to the Zoids toy line of the same name. It is the third Zoids series, following Zoids: New Century Zero in order of production. The series is 26 episodes long, however, the show had an unsuccessful U.S. broadcast, and was eventually canceled after 13 episodes. Similar to...
- Red DwarfRed DwarfRed Dwarf is a British comedy franchise which primarily comprises eight series of a television science fiction sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999 and Dave from 2009–present. It gained cult following. It was created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, who also wrote the first six series...
, a British science fiction comedy franchise - Reservoir DogsReservoir DogsReservoir Dogs is an American crime film marking debut of director and writer Quentin Tarantino. It depicts the events before and after a botched diamond heist, but not the heist itself. Reservoir Dogs stars an ensemble cast: Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, and...
, a 1992 American film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino - Reader's DigestReader's DigestReader's Digest is a general interest family magazine, published ten times annually. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, its headquarters is now in New York City. It was founded in 1922, by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace...
, a popular general-interest magazine - ReDent, identi.ca's term for rebloggingRebloggingReblogging is the mechanism in microblogging which allows users to repost the content of another user's post with an indication that the content of the repost is a "reblog" from another user...
- RememberDestiny, a cosplayCosplay, short for "costume play", is a type of performance art in which participants don costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea. Characters are often drawn from popular fiction in Japan, but recent trends have included American cartoons and science fiction...
group from Belgium - Reader: the first rank of the clergy in the Orthodox Church.
- Rilindja DemokratikeRilindja DemokratikeRilindja Demokratike is a newspaper published in Albania. It is part of the Democratic Party of Albania. It has a circulation of 5,333 newspapers. It isn't published on Monday. Its chief editor is Bledi Kasmi. It first publication was on 5 January 1991 and was the first free newspaper...
, a newspaper in AlbaniaAlbaniaAlbania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...
. - Rainbow Dash, a fictional character in the television show "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic"
Science and technology
- Rate–distortion optimizationRate–distortion optimizationRate–distortion optimization is a method of improving video quality in video compression. The name refers to the optimization of the amount of distortion against the amount of data required to encode the video, the rate...
, a decision algorithm used in video compression - Reaktivniy Dvigatel, a Soviet Russian prefix for an engine design series (literally, "reactive engine"; see RD-8 for example)
- RocketdynePratt & Whitney RocketdynePratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is a United States company that designs and produces rocket engines that use liquid propellants. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, headquartered in Canoga Park, California, is a division of Pratt & Whitney, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation...
, a United States rocket engine company - Rutherford (unit)Rutherford (unit)The rutherford is an obsolete unit of radioactivity, defined as the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one million nuclei decay per second. It is therefore equivalent to one megabecquerel. It was named after Ernest Rutherford. It is not an SI unit....
, a unit of radioactivity
Medicine
- Retinal detachmentRetinal detachmentRetinal detachment is a disorder of the eye in which the retina peels away from its underlying layer of support tissue. Initial detachment may be localized, but without rapid treatment the entire retina may detach, leading to vision loss and blindness. It is a medical emergency.The retina is a...
, a disorder of the eye - Registered DietitianDietitianDietitians supervise the preparation and service of food, develop modified diets, participate in research, and educate individuals and groups on good nutritional habits. The goals of dietitians are to provide medical nutritional intervention, and to obtain, safely prepare, serve and advise on...
, an expert in food and nutrition
Mathematics
- Rata DieRata DieRata Die is a system for assigning numbers to calendar days , independent of any calendar, for the purposes of calendrical calculations....
, a calendar-independent system to assign numbers to calendar dates - Rd, the mathematical domain of real numbers
Computing
- rd, also called rmdirRmdirrmdir is a command which will remove an empty directory on a Unix, DOS, OS/2 or Microsoft Windows operating system. In Unix, Linux, and MacOS, it is case sensitive, whereas DOS, OS/2 and Windows , you can type the characters in any combination of upper case and lower case letters, and rd/rmdir...
, a shell command meaning "remove directory" - Ruby Document formatRuby Document formatRD is a lightweight markup languagefor writing Ruby-related documents.It can be embedded in Ruby source code.RD is a traditional format.In modern Ruby, developers tend to write documents in RDoc instead of RD.- Use :...
, a markup language used for documentation of Ruby programs - Route distinguisherRoute distinguisherA route distinguisher is an address qualifer used only within a single internet service provider's Multi-Protocol Label Switching network...
, in data networking, a concept in Multiprotocol Label Switching
Geography
- RoadRoadA road is a thoroughfare, route, or way on land between two places, which typically has been paved or otherwise improved to allow travel by some conveyance, including a horse, cart, or motor vehicle. Roads consist of one, or sometimes two, roadways each with one or more lanes and also any...
- Repair Depot (for example, 6 Repair Depot6 Repair DepotNo. 6 Repair Depot was an aircraft modification and repair unit of the Royal Canadian Air Force's Air Materiel Command located at Trenton, Ontario. Duties of No. 6 RD included handling aircraft at other stations around southern Ontario and assisting with aircraft being serviced or modified at...
) - Rural DeliveryRural delivery serviceRural delivery service refers to the delivery of mail in what are traditionally considered rural areas. In the United States, rural letter carriers began service with the experiments with Rural Free Delivery in 1891...
, mail delivery in what are traditionally considered rural areas in the United States
Military
- Reserve DecorationDecoration for Officers of the Royal Naval ReserveThe Decoration for Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve was a medal awarded in the Royal Naval Reserve of the United Kingdom to officers with at least fifteen years of active duty...
, an award for service in the Royal Navy Reserve of the United Kingdom - Reserve Decoration or Decoration for Reserve Force Service ("RD" - post nominal letters), since 2003, awarded to South African Military ReserveMilitary reserve forceA military reserve force is a military organization composed of citizens of a country who combine a military role or career with a civilian career. They are not normally kept under arms and their main role is to be available to fight when a nation mobilizes for total war or to defend against invasion...
members after 20 years service, at least five of which must have been in the Reserve Force
Other
- Resident Director, a common staff position at universities and colleges with on-campus housing
- Ritual DecalogueRitual DecalogueThe Ritual Decalogue is a list of laws in the Book of Exodus, . These laws are similar to the Covenant Code and are followed by the phrase ten commandments...
, a list called the "Ten Commandments" in Exodus 34 that deals mostly with imperatives of worship - RoundCartridge (firearms)A cartridge, also called a round, packages the bullet, gunpowder and primer into a single metallic case precisely made to fit the firing chamber of a firearm. The primer is a small charge of impact-sensitive chemical that may be located at the center of the case head or at its rim . Electrically...
of ammunition - Rassemblement démocrate, a political party in France
- ‹rd›, a Latin alphabet digraph of a retroflex stop in Aboriginal Australian languages
- RD$, the Dominican pesoDominican pesoThe Dominican peso, also called peso oro is the currency of the Dominican Republic. Its symbol is "$", with "RD$" used when distinction from other pesos is required; its ISO 4217 code is "DOP". Each peso is divided into 100 centavos , for which the ¢ symbol is used...
- USDA Rural Development, an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture
- the IATA airline designator for Ryan International AirlinesRyan International AirlinesRyan International Airlines, Inc. is an American FAR 121 airline with domestic, flag, and supplemental authority.Based in Rockford, Illinois, the US Postal Service was once the airline's main customer, flying Boeing 727 aircraft on scheduled cargo flights...
- an English-language ordinal indicator, or suffix, to abbreviate ordinal numbers ending in "third" (3rd, 23rd, 33rd, etc.)