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R&B – (i) Rhythm and Blues RBAR – (i) Row by agonizing row – a derogatory way of describing a technique of scanning a set of records in a database to update or examine the contents of each one. This is the technique of last resort in most cases, since most database operations are optimized when using set based analysis instead of the RBAR ...
R-labialization, which should not be confused with the rounding of initial /r/ described above, is a process occurring in certain dialects of English, particularly some varieties of Cockney, in which the /r/ phoneme is realized as a labiodental approximant [ʋ], in contrast to an alveolar approximant [ɹ].
Contraction Full Form a’ight (informal) alright ain’t (informal): am not / is not / are not / has not / have not / did not (colloquial) [1] amn’t: am not [2] ’n’ / ‘n’ (informal)
This is a list of abbreviations which are less commonly used in the subject of an English email header: . AEAP, meaning As Early As Possible.; ASAP, meaning As Soon As Possible.
R – real numbers. ran – range of a function. rank – rank of a matrix. (Also written as rk.) Re – real part of a complex number. [2] (Also written.) resp – respectively. RHS – right-hand side of an equation. rk – rank. (Also written as rank.) RMS, rms – root mean square. rng – non-unital ring. rot – rotor of a vector field
Some people believe that it is short for 'regarding', especially if it is followed by a colon (i.e., "Re:"). Reg. regina "queen" A part of the monarch's title. It is found on all British coins minted during the reign of a monarch who is a queen. Rex, "king" (not an abbreviation) is used when the reigning monarch is a king. r.
The loss of postvocalic /r/ in the British prestige standard in the late 18th and the early 19th centuries influenced the American port cities with close connections to Britain, which caused upper-class pronunciation to become non-rhotic in many Eastern and Southern port cities such as New York City, Boston, Alexandria, Charleston, and Savannah. [9]
R, or r, is the eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ar (pronounced / ˈ ɑːr / ), plural ars , [ 1 ] or in Ireland or ( / ˈ ɔːr / ).