ROR
Encyclopedia
The acronym ROR may refer to:
- Ror community or the RorRorThe Ror is a Kshatriya community and numbers between 750,000 and 1,000,000. They hold nearly 270 villages in Haryana and 52 more in Western Uttar Pradesh and the Haridwar district of Uttarakhand....
caste of North IndiaNorth IndiaNorth India, known natively as Uttar Bhārat or Shumālī Hindustān , is a loosely defined region in the northern part of India. The exact meaning of the term varies by usage... - ROR, the IATA code for Palau International AirportPalau International AirportRoman Tmetuchl International Airport is the main airport of Palau. It is located just north of Airai on Babelthuap island. The airport is 6 miles from Koror and 15 miles from Melekeok....
- Rate of returnRate of returnIn finance, rate of return , also known as return on investment , rate of profit or sometimes just return, is the ratio of money gained or lost on an investment relative to the amount of money invested. The amount of money gained or lost may be referred to as interest, profit/loss, gain/loss, or...
, a comparison of the money earned or lost on an investment to the amount of money invested - RipOff ReportRipoff ReportRipoff Report is a privately owned and operated for-profit website founded by Ed Magedson. The Ripoff Report has been online since December 1998 and is operated by Xcentric Ventures, LLC which is based in Arizona...
, a consumer advocacy website - Societatea Română de RadiodifuziuneRomanian Radio Broadcasting CompanyThe Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company , informally referred to as Radio Romania , is the public radio broadcaster in Romania. It operates four national radio channels, and, under the Radio România Regional umbrella, eleven regional radio stations. The four national radio channels are: Radio...
, a member of the European Broadcasting Union - Rhythms of ResistanceRhythms of resistanceRhythms of Resistance, sometimes abbreviated to RoR, is a network of percussion bands that play at demonstrations and direct actions that fall within the broad definition of 'anti-capitalist'...
, a network of political percussion bands - Release on own recognizanceRecognizanceIn some common law nations, a recognizance is a conditional obligation undertaken by a person before a court. It is an obligation of record, entered into before a court or magistrate duly authorized, whereby the party bound acknowledges that he owes a personal debt to the state...
, in legal terminology - Rigs of RodsRigs of RodsRigs of Rods is an open source, freeware, multi-simulation game which uses soft-body physics to simulate the motion and deformation of trucks. The game is built using a specific soft-body physics engine called Beam, which simulates a network of interconnected nodes and gives the ability to...
, a soft body physics truck simulator - Receptor tyrosine kinase-like orphan receptorReceptor tyrosine kinase-like orphan receptorIn the field of molecular biology, receptor tyrosine kinase-like orphan receptors are a family of tyrosine kinase receptors that are important in regulating skeletal and neuronal development, cell migration and cell polarity. ROR proteins can can modulate Wnt signaling by sequestering Wnt ligands....
s in biochemistry, members of the receptor tyrosine kinase family of cell surface receptors - RAR-related orphan receptorRAR-related orphan receptorThe RAR-related orphan receptors are members of the nuclear receptor family of intracellular transcription factors. There are three forms of ROR, ROR-α, -β, and -γ and each is encoded by a separate gene...
s - members of the nuclear receptor family of intracellular transcription factors - An etherEtherEthers are a class of organic compounds that contain an ether group — an oxygen atom connected to two alkyl or aryl groups — of general formula R–O–R'. A typical example is the solvent and anesthetic diethyl ether, commonly referred to simply as "ether"...
- two organic R groups connected to oxygen (R-O-R) - Reach Out and ReadReach Out and ReadReach Out and Read , is an American non-profit organization that advocates for childhood literacy. ROR was founded in 1989 at Boston City Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and was based on the premise to "encourage parents to read regularly to their children and give them the tools to do so." The...
, an AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
non-profit organization that advocates for childhood literacyLiteracyLiteracy has traditionally been described as the ability to read for knowledge, write coherently and think critically about printed material.Literacy represents the lifelong, intellectual process of gaining meaning from print... - RORRORThe acronym ROR may refer to:* Ror community or the Ror caste of North India* ROR, the IATA code for Palau International Airport* Rate of return, a comparison of the money earned or lost on an investment to the amount of money invested...
, acronym for Ragnarok Online Republic also known as Ragna Republic - ROR is also an acronym for Raff out Roud.
- ROR is also an acronym for Rules of the Road nautical
- ROR is also an acronym for Released on Own Recognizance, a common police shorthand or expression.
In computers
- Remote outdoor routerRemote outdoor routerRemote outdoor router, or ROR in short form, is a device that connects a remote location in a WLAN to either another remote location with an ROR for a point-to-point connection or to the system's COR for point-to-multipoint connections. The ROR can connect to only one other unit at one time -...
- Resources of a ResourceResources of a ResourceResources of a Resource is an XML format for describing the content of an internet resource or website in a generic fashion so this content can be better understood by search engines, spiders, web applications, etc. The ROR format provides several pre-defined terms for describing objects like...
, an XML format for describing common website objects to search engines - Age of Empires: The Rise of RomeAge of Empires: The Rise of RomeAge of Empires: The Rise of Rome Expansion is a history-based real-time strategy game in the Age of Empires series. It is based on the rise of the Roman Empire, and adds the Roman Empire and three other playable civilizations to Age of Empires....
, an expansion to the video game Age of Empires - Rigs Of RodsRigs of RodsRigs of Rods is an open source, freeware, multi-simulation game which uses soft-body physics to simulate the motion and deformation of trucks. The game is built using a specific soft-body physics engine called Beam, which simulates a network of interconnected nodes and gives the ability to...
, a multi-simulation game which uses soft-body physics - ROtate Right, a common instruction in Assembly languageAssembly languageAn assembly language is a low-level programming language for computers, microprocessors, microcontrollers, and other programmable devices. It implements a symbolic representation of the machine codes and other constants needed to program a given CPU architecture...
- Ruby on RailsRuby on RailsRuby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language.-History:...
, an open source web application framework - Renegade Operatives Regiment - http://ror.hu/