RPS

RPS is a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to:


A society

  • Royal Pharmaceutical Society, in the United Kingdom
  • Royal Philharmonic Society, in the United Kingdom
  • Royal Photographic Society, in the United Kingdom
  • Racial Preservation Society, a defunct British pressure group

A school

  • Revere Public Schools
  • Robert Pattinson School, a specialist language school in the United Kingdom
  • Roundwood Park School, a specialist maths and computing school in the United Kingdom
  • Rutgers Preparatory School, New Jersey

A group

  • Royal Protection Squad, a general name for the two branches who provides protective security for the U.K. Royal Family.
  • RPS Group plc, a consultancy in the United Kingdom
  • Reform Party of Syria
  • Rajasthan Police Services, a law enforcement agency in Rajasthan state

A measure

  • Requests per second, a measure of resource use
  • Revolutions per second, a measure of angular velocity
  • Rounds per second, the rate of fire of a firearm

A system

  • Reactor Protective System, a set of safety components in a nuclear power plant
  • Roadway Package System, former name of FedEx Ground
  • Radioisotope Power System, a type of Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator used on NASA projects such as the Mars Science Laboratory
  • Redundant Power System or Redundant Power Supply, variations of an Uninterruptible power supply

Other

  • Real People Slash, a synonym of real person fiction
  • Records of the Parliaments of Scotland, a project digitising the records of the pre-1707 Parliament of Scotland
  • Regulated Product Submissions, a Health Level 7 Standard for electronic submissions to regulatory agencies
  • Relying Party Suite, an authentication system that adds tokens to each request sent to the Windows Live Data website
  • Renewable Portfolio Standard, a government regulatory policy
  • Rock-paper-scissors, a game
  • Rock, Paper, Shotgun, a British PC Gaming website
  • Roket Pengorbit Satelit, an Indonesian space rocket family for satellite launch
  • Rychu Peja SoLUfka, polish rapper
  • Role-playing shooters
  • Risk-based Planning and Scheduling, a scheduling technique combining deterministic and stochastic analysis
  • Relative Percent Survival