title: RMS
text: # RMS
  
  RMS may refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  * Ramstein Air Base, in Germany (IATA code RMS)
  * Republik Maluku Selatan (Republic of the South Moluccas), a self-proclaimed republic in the Maluku Islands, founded in 1950
  
  ## Organizations
  
  ### Learned societies
  
  * Ramanujan Mathematical Society, a learned society founded in 1985 in India
  * Royal Medical Society, a learned society founded in 1737 at the University of Edinburgh Medical School
  * Royal Meteorological Society, a learned society founded in 1850 in Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire
  * Royal Microscopical Society, a learned society founded in 1839 in London, now headquartered in Oxford
  * Russian Mineralogical Society, a learned society founded in 1817 in Saint Petersburg
  * Russian Musical Society, a learned society founded in 1859 and disbanded in 1917
  
  ### Schools
  
  **United States**
  
  * Radnor Middle School, in Radnor, Pennsylvania
  * Redwood Middle School (Saratoga, California)
  * Rice Middle School, in Plano, Texas
  * Richardson Middle School, in Chicago, Illinois
  * Richland Middle School, in Richland Hills, Texas
  * Riverwood Middle School, in Kingwood, Texas
  * Robinson Middle School, in Plano, Texas
  * Rocky Mountain semester, in Leadville, Colorado; now called High Mountain Institute Semester
  * Romulus Middle School, in Romulus, Michigan
  * Roosevelt Middle School (Oakland, California)
  * Rosemount Middle School, in Rosemount, Minnesota
  * Ridgely Middle School, in Lutherville, Maryland
  
  **Elsewhere**
  
  * Rambhakta Memorial School in Banepa, Kavre, Nepal
  * Reims Management School, in Reims, France
  * Robert May's School, in Hampshire, England
  * The Royal Masonic School for Girls, in Hertfordshire, England
  * Rutland Middle School, in British Columbia, Canada
  
  ### Other organizations
  
  * Railway Mail Service, a former US mail transportation service
  * Raytheon Missile Systems, a former company which manufactured missiles
  * Regroupement des militants syndicaux ("Trades-Union Militants Grouping"), a political organization in Quebec, Canada, in the 1970s
  * Risk Management Solutions, a subsidiary of Moody's Corporation
  * Roads and Maritime Services, a former agency of the New South Wales government, Australia
  * Rotana Media Services, the advertising and marketing wing of Rotana Group
  * Rotating Memory Systems, Inc., a defunct hard disk drive manufacturer
  * RMS, a prefix for Royal Mail Ships and aircraft, UK
  * Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers, originally the Royal Miniatures Society, London
  
  ## Science and technology
  
  ### Biology and medicine
  
  * Rhabdomyosarcoma, a cancer of connective tissues
  * Rostral migratory stream, one path that neuronal stem cells travel along to reach the olfactory bulb
  * Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis
  
  ### Computing
  
  * Rate-monotonic scheduling, a scheduling technique in operating systems
  * Record Management Services, file-management processes in OpenVMS operating systems
  * Record Management System, a persistent storage mechanism available to some Java ME configurations
  * Rights Management Services, a component of MS Windows Server 2003
  
  ### Other uses in science and technology
  
  * RMS (noise reduction) (Rauschminderungssystem), a Dolby-B-compatible compander in the former GDR in the 1980s
  * Reconfigurable Manufacturing System, designed for rapid change in its structure
  * Residual mean square, a measure of the difference between data and a model of that data
  * Root mean square, a measure of the magnitude of a varying quantity
  * Royal Microscopical Society thread, or society thread, a screw thread used for microscope objective lenses
  * "Watt RMS", an erroneous term for "average power" used in audio measurements
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * RMS (band), a British jazz/rock fusion band, formed in 1982
  * Richard Matthew Stallman, often referred to as "rms", a software freedom activist and computer programmer
  * Royal Mail Ship, the ship prefix used for seagoing vessels that carry mail under contract to the British Royal Mail
  * Resilient Multi-mission Space STaR Shot program, an Australian satellite defence program being developed by Airbus at Lot Fourteen in Adelaide, South Australia
  