rms
rms
1 American
Or
r.m.s.
R.M.S.
2
American
abbreviation
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Railway Mail Service.
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British. Royal Mail Service.
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British. Royal Mail Steamship.
RMS
1
British
abbreviation
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Royal Mail Service
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Royal Mail Steamer
rms
2
British
abbreviation
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Since an AC voltage is applied, there is an rms current, but it is limited by the capacitor.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Certain heavy industrial equipment uses AC power that has a peak voltage of 679 V. What is the rms voltage?
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
At what temperature is this rms speed achieved?
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
To summarize, when dealing with AC, Ohm's law and the equations for power are completely analogous to those for DC, but rms and average values are used for AC.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Although a capacitor is basically an open circuit, there is an rms current in a circuit with an AC voltage applied to a capacitor.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Yang, alongside co-writer Anna Drezen, imagined the iceberg as a pop diva whose sinking of the R.M.S.
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2025
Now that the world knows what happened to the Titan, the submersible that vanished Sunday on a dive to view the wreck of the R.M.S.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
It takes eight hours and $250,000 to get to what remains of the R.M.S.
From National Geographic ● Jun. 20, 2023
An ambitious digital imaging project has produced what researchers describe as a “digital twin” of the R.M.S.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2023
Here is the Programme of our Concert:— R.M.S.
From The British Association's Visit to Montreal, 1884 : letters by Rayleigh, Clara
Are Cartier Love bracelets about to replace the Hermès RMS -0.24%decrease; red down pointing triangle Birkin bag as the product that drives the best shareholder returns in the luxury-goods industry?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Birkin bag maker Hermes RMS 1.19%increase; green up pointing triangle reported a slowdown in sales growth for the first quarter as the war in Iran clouds the sector’s rebound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
John Richardson had been instrumental in the RMS Carpathia rescuing survivors from the Titanic's lifeboats, just hours after it had gone down in the North Atlantic, killing 1,500 people.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026
That didn’t rescue the Pike, nor did another new name for the area: Queen Park, after the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary, permanently anchored on the Long Beach landscape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2025
That’s what happened in March 1942, when Elizebeth discovered that the Nazis were planning to ambush the RMS Queen Mary, which had over eight thousand American servicemen on board.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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