RS explained

RS may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

• RS Group, entertainment & media company in Thailand
• RS Group plc, British electronics & industrial distributor in England with brands including RS Components and RS Americas, Inc
• RS Infotainment, Indian film production and distribution company
• RS Productions, defunct Australian television and radio production company
• Relief Society, an official auxiliary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)
• République solidaire, a French political party
• Roberval and Saguenay Railway (reporting mark RS)
• Russian Party (Serbia) (Ruska stranka), a political party in Serbia

Sport

• RS Sailing, an international designer and builder of sailboats and dinghies
• Queens Park Rangers F.C., a professional football club from Shepherd's Bush, London, commonly nicknamed 'The Rs'

Places

• Republic of Serbia (ISO 3166-1 code RS), country
• Republic of Slovenia, country
• Republika Srpska, one of the two political entities that compose the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Republika Srpska (1992–1995)
• Rio Grande do Sul (ISO 3166-2 code BR-RS), Brazilian state

Science and technology

• R/S classification, of the chirality of a molecule
• RS, a class of racemic mixture
• Radio Science, an instrument aboard MESSENGER space probe
• Remote sensing
• Risk and Safety Statements (R/S statements), a system of hazard codes and phrases for labeling dangerous chemicals

Biology and medicine

• Resistant starch, indigestible starches (and sugars from starches)
• Roemheld syndrome, a complex of gastrocardiac symptoms
• Stomatal resistance (r_s), of leaves
• rs, prefix of a DbSNP record ID number e.g. rs206437
• Respiratory syncytial virus, a species of virus

Computing

• .rs, the internet country code top-level domain for Republic of Serbia
• .rs, a filename extension for Rust source code
• Recommended Standard (EIA), e.g. RS-232
• Record Separator, in the C0 control code
• Reed–Solomon error correction

Vehicles

• Rally Sport, a designation applied to rallying cars
• German: Rennsport (German for "racing sport"), a designation used for cars such as the Audi RS models
  • Porsche 911 Carrera RS
  • Porsche 911 GT3 RS
• Ford Team RS, Ford Motor Company's European performance car and motorsport division
• Renault Sport (R.S.), performance and motorsport division of automobile manufacturer Renault

Other uses

• Pakistani rupee (plural currency symbol Rs)
• RS (rapper) (2000–2019), Dutch drill rapper
• Report Short, a type of US Congressional Research Service Report
• Retail services specialist, an occupational rating in the U.S. Navy
• Rolling Stone magazine
• RuneScape, a fantasy MMORPG by Jagex