RMS
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RMS may refer to any of the following:
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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 Society of Miniature Painters Sculptors and Gravers, known as the Royal Miniatures Society
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People
- Richard M. Stallman, computer programmer and founder of the GNU project
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Science and technology
- Rate-monotonic scheduling, scheduling technique in operating systems
- Record Management Services, in OpenVMS
- Record Management System, a persistent storage mechanism available to some J2ME configurations.
- Remote Manipulator System, the arm on the Space Shuttle over its payload bay
- Rights Management Services, a component of MS Windows Server 2003 that helps corporations protect confidential data
- Root mean square, a concept frequently encountered in statistics and electronics
- "Watts RMS", regarding power handling and especially music, is a misnomer for AC average power; see audio power
- RMS granularity, a method of measuring photographic grain, developed by Kodak
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Places
- South Moluccas (Republik Maluku Selatan), a Dutch colony now part of Indonesia (but with a government in exile)