Even the radical chic New Yorkers made fun of the metric system as a foot ball (as two words, to indicate how to measure length and ball like a bouncing ball). It's an exercise in radical chic, giving marginalized academics a frisson of pretend anti-colonialism, seasoned with a dose of edgy anti-Semitism.
RLD isn't filename extension, it is the abbreviated name of release group. RecLoad Definition. RLD file is a RecLoad Definition File for OSIsoft PI System Connectors. OSIsoft PI System is a real-time, event-driven enterprise infrastructure that uses an Office Business Application (OBA).
Reverse Plain & Twilled Reverse Dutch weave wire mesh. Reverse Plain Dutch weave wire mesh (RPD) is woven using two sizes of wire. Smaller wires are used in the warp direction and are woven with a larger shute wire. The smaller wires are woven tightly together, providing a tight mesh for filtering.