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RAS or Ras may refer to:

People and titles

• Hans Ras (1926-2003), Dutch philologist
• Registered Accessibility Specialist
• Rundfunk Anstalt Südtirol, a public broadcaster whose purpose is to relay programming from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland to the German-speaking population
• Ras, an Ethiopian aristocratic and court title, as in Ras Tafari
• Ras, an honorific taken from the Ethiopian and used by members of the Rastafari movement

Locations

• Stari Ras, first capital city of medieval Serbian state of Raska
• Ras Tanura, city in eastern Saudi Arabia

Societies and groups

• Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, a society to further study into topics relating to science, literature, and the arts in relation to Asia
• IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, IEEE
• IEEE I-RAS, Italian Chapter of the Robotic and Automation Society
• Royal Astronomical Society, British society founded in 1802
• Royal Adelaide Show, Australian agricultural show
• Russian Academy of Sciences
• Russian Automobile Society, a member of the FIA

Medical terms

• Ras (protein), a family of proteins involved in cellular signal transduction.
• Renal artery stenosis, anatomical term for the narrowing of the renal artery
• Renin-angiotensin system, hormone system that regulates blood pressure
• Reticular activating system, neurological system in the brain
• RAS, for a recurrent aphthous ulcer
• Rhythmic auditory stimulation
• Retinoic acid syndrome

Science and technology

• RAS, for Registration, Admission and Status, a telephony term
• Radio Access Station, Apparatus in a portable internet system (Such as IEEE 802.16e)
• .ras, the native raster format of the SunOS Unix operating system
• Reliability, Availability and Serviceability, properties of information technology systems
• Remote Access Service, combination of hardware and software for remote access to computing systems especially for networking
• Row Address Strobe, one of four control signal types in asynchronous DRAM
• Reusable Asset Specification, OMG Standard for packaging digital artifacts
• Reflection anisotropy spectroscopy, an optical surface analysis tool
• RAS, Return Authorization, a method for returning mechandise.

Transport

• Roundabout Appreciation Society
• RAS, for Replenishment at Sea, a method of Underway replenishment
• Radar Advisory Service - Replaced by Deconfliction Service for Air Traffic Control Services Outside Controlled Airpsace (ATSOCAS)

Fiction and entertainment

• RAS Records, a reggae record label
• Ras, or Ra's, nickname for the fictional Batman villain Ra's al Ghul
• Rescue Aid Society, a fictional society in the 1977 film The Rescuers
• Nickname used by the Senior Knight of Inferia, Rassius Luine, from the PS1 game, Tales of Eternia
• Royal Adelaide Show

Other uses

• Rail Adapter System; another name for the Picatinny rail system used for mounting accessories on modern firearms
• RAS syndrome, Redundant Acronym Syndrome syndrome
• Rás Tailteann, an annual cycling race in Ireland
• Regimental aviation squadron
• Recirculating Aquaculture System
• Reasonable articulable suspicion; the condition under which a police officer has the right to search a suspect

See also

• Ra (disambiguation)
• RAH, disambiguation

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English

Noun

Ras

1. Plural form of Ra.

Anagrams

• Anagrams of ars
• ASR
• RSA
• Sar., SAR