RSS (disambiguation)

RSS is a three-letter abbreviation that can stand for a wide variety of terms.

Mathematics

• Root-sum-square, the square root of the sum of the squares of the elements of a data set. To perform this operation, which is called "taking the RSS": square each of the elements, add up the results, and take the square root of the total. Used colloquially to refer to the magnitude of a vector. Compare this to root mean square.

Technology

• Range Safety System, used in the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster and other systems
• Reduced Space Symbology, the former name of GS1 DataBar, an approved barcode of GS1
• Road Sensing Suspension, a part of the Northstar System brand of General Motors automotive technology
• Roland Sound Space by Roland Corporation
• Rotating Service Structure, used in the Space Shuttle program launches
• Robotics Science and Systems Conference. http://www.robotics-conference.org/
• RSS (file format), Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary or RDF Site Summary, several similar forms of web syndication used by news websites and weblogs
• Radio Service Software, a proprietary suite of programs sold by Motorola
• Relay Spam Stopper, a Spam Blacklist run by Mail-abuse.org[1], operated by MAPS (owned by Trend Micro)
• Resident Set Size or Resident Segment Size, a measurement of RAM usage; represents actual physical RAM being used
• Received Signal Strength, RF terminology for ratio of transmitted signal power to received signal power.

Science

• Recombination signal sequences, in immunological genetics, direct somatic recombination of gene segments
• Residual sum of squares, in regression models

Medicine

• Repetitive strain injury, also Repetitive stress syndrome, an overuse syndrome
• Russell-Silver syndrome

Evil scum

• Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu nationalist organization in India.

Society

• Recruiting Sub-Station, a satellite office of a main military recruiting station.
• Regional Spatial Strategy provides a regional level planning framework for the regions of England
• Regional Security System, an agreement between several countries situated in the Eastern Caribbean region. The RSS acts as a unit made up of a series of defence and disaster management forces.
• Religious and Social Studies, a subject offered in many secondary schools in the United Kingdom
• Royal Statistical Society, the main professional body for statisticians in the UK
• Rural Sociological Society

• Rochester Subway, which had the AAR reporting mark, RSS
• Rockdale, Sandow and Southern Railroad, which currently has the AAR reporting mark RSS

Media

• Rastriya Samachar Samiti, the national news agency of Nepal.

School

• Red Swastika School, Singapore
• Riverside Secondary School, Windsor, Ontario, Canada