RMS

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RMS may refer to any of the following:

[edit] People

• Richard M. Stallman (often abbreviated "rms"), veteran software developer and founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation

[edit] Things

• Railway Mail Service, US mail transportation service until the mid-20th century
• Royal Mail Ship or Steamer, ship prefix for vessels that carry mail under contract to the British Royal Mail
• Royal Melbourne Show
• Royal Meteorological Society
• Royal Society of Miniature Painters Sculptors and Gravers, known as the Royal Miniatures Society
• Russ Martin Show
• Relocation management services (employee relocation firms)
• Royal Microscopical Society
• Santiago Metropolitan Region (Región Metropolitana de Santiago) in Chile
• RMS (band), a jazz/rock fusion band which consisted of guitarist, Ray Russell, bass player, Mo Foster and drummer Simon Phillips

[edit] Science and technology

• RMS granularity, a method of measuring photographic grain, developed by Kodak
• Rate-monotonic scheduling, a scheduling technique in operating systems
• Reconfigurable Manufacturing System, a system designed at the outset for rapid change to quickly adjust its production capacity and functionality in response to sudden market changes and customer demand
• Record Management Services, in OpenVMS
• Record Management System, a persistent storage mechanism available to some Java ME configurations
• A system that implements Records management
• Remote Manipulator System, a mechanical arm of the Space Shuttle that maneuvers payloads
• Root mean square, a concept frequently encountered in statistics and electronics
• Retail Management System, a software application written by Microsoft
• Rights Management Services, a component of MS Windows Server 2003
• A measurement system for Audio power
• Rostral migratory stream, leading new neurons to the olfactory bulb

[edit] Companies

• Raytheon Missile Systems
• Risk Management Solutions, a company which provides financial risk advisory services and catastrophe modeling software
• RMS Communications, a Broadband and Cable TV component supplier

[edit] Schools

• Readington Middle School, in Readington, New Jersey, U.S.
• Richland Middle School, in Richland Hills, Texas, USA
• Robert May's School, in Hampshire, England
• Royal Masonic School, Hertfordshire, England
• Romulus Middle School, in Romulus, Michigan
• Radnor Middle School, in Radnor, Pennsylvania, USA
• Roosevelt Middle School (Oakland, California)
• Reims Management School, in Rheims, France

[edit] Organizations

• Republik Maluku Selatan, a separatist movement in Indonesia that first proclaimed an independent "Republic of South Maluku" in the 1950s