Science and Technology
- Root mean square, a measure of the spread of a quantity
-
- Watt RMS, often referred to as "RMS", a root mean square related to average audio power
- Residual mean square, a measure of the difference between data and a model of that data
- Rate-monotonic scheduling, a scheduling technique in operating systems
- Reconfigurable Manufacturing System, a system designed to respond to changes in market conditions or customer demand
- Any system that implements records management
-
- Record Management Services, in OpenVMS
- Record Management System, a persistent storage mechanism available to some Java ME configurations
- Remote Manipulator System, a mechanical arm of the Space Shuttle that maneuvers payloads
- Rights Management Services, a component of MS Windows Server 2003
- Rostral migratory stream, leading new neurons to the olfactory bulb
- RMS thread, also known as society thread, is a special 0.8"-36 Whitworth thread form used for microscope objective lenses. It is named after the Royal Microscopical Society
Read more about this topic: RMS
Famous quotes containing the words science and, science and/or technology:
“The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“The well-educated young woman of 1950 will blend art and sciences in a way we do not dream of; the science will steady the art and the art will give charm to the science. This young woman will marry—yes, indeed, but she will take her pick of men, who will by that time have begun to realize what sort of men it behooves them to be.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)
“The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)