R

R is the eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet.

Semitic Rêš (the head) developed into Greek Ρω (Rô). The sound value /r/ however was maintained in Greek as well as Etruscan and Latin. The finishing stroke was added to the Greek Rho to distinguish it from a later form of the Greek Pi, at a time when there were only capital letters in Latin. It is usually one of the liquid consonants, though there are many ways it is pronounced in European languages.

In typography, there was once a form called the half r, which was lost before the long s was.

Romeo represents the letter R in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

Meanings for R

In biochemistry, R is the symbol for arginine
In calendars, R is often used as an abbreviation for Thursday instead of T, to avoid confusion with Tuesday
In chemistry,
- R denotes the gas constant
- In organic chemistry, R is the symbol for an unspecified hydrocarbon chain
- In stereochemistry, R (rectus) signifies clockwise arrangement of substituents around a carbon atom using the Cahn Ingold Prelog priority rules
In chess, R is a notation symbol for the rook piece
In the RGB colour model, R stands for the colour red
In commerce, R with an enclosing circle, ®, denotes a registered trademark
In computing,
- R is the name of a statistical programming language based on S; see R programming language
- r is sometimes used as the symbol for the rune 16-bit unit
In driving a motor vehicle, R designates the reverse gear of a transmission
In electrical engineering, R is often the variable for electrical resistance
In film, R is a rating given for films given by film classification boards (such as the Motion Picture Association of America in the US); see R (rating)
- R is a character in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough
In financial securities, R is the stock symbol for Ryder Systems Inc.
In geometry, r is often a variable for the radius of a circle
In law, R. stands for Rex (king) or Regina (queen) in court citations in countries that recognize the British monarch as head of state
In mathematics,
- the symbol ℛ (script capital R, Unicode $211B) represents the Riemann integral
- the symbol ℜ (black-letter capital R, Unicode $211C) represents the real part of a complex number
- blackboard bold $\mathbb{R}$ or ℝ (double-struck capital R, Unicode $211D) represents the set of real numbers
In navigation, R denotes the relative direction "right"; see left and right
In physics,
- R is the symbol for roentgen, a unit of dosage of ionising radiation
- °R or °Ra is the symbol for the Rankine degree
- °R or °Ré is the symbol for the Réaumur degree
- °R or °Rø is the symbol for the Rømer degree
- r stands for revolution in units of measure of angular velocity such as the revolution per second (rps)
As the first letter of a postal code,
- In Canada, R stands for Manitoba.
In radiocommunication, R is one of the ITU prefixes allocated to Russia
In the romanization of the Japanese language, the letter R was selected instead of the letter L for the syllables in the tenth tier of the kana, for both the Hepburn system and the Kunrei, amongst others
In statistics,
- R is the name of a statistical programming language based on S; see R programming language
- r is the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient

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