Ra (disambiguation)

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RA or Ra can refer to:

People

• Registered Architect, a designer who is licensed by a government to practice architecture
• Research assistant, a graduate student employed by a college or university for the purpose of academic research
• Research associate, a post doctoral academic researcher
• Resident assistant, a college student charged with supervising students living in a residence hall
• Royal Academician a member of the Royal Academy, also known as the Royal Academy of Arts
• Ra (Stargate), a character from the film Stargate
• Rå, a creature in Scandinavian mythology
• Alternate spelling of Roua, a Polynesian deity
• Ra (artist), the pseudonym of Raoul Sinier, a french digital painter and electronic musician
• Ra (Supermodel& actress), a nickname, and US based signature couture fashion clothing line endorsed by Robin Arcuri, a supermodel and actress

Groups

• Registration authority, maintenance agency is a body given the responsibility of maintaining lists of codes
• Regulatory Affairs, a department in charge of government relations within regulated industries
• Regular Army, the permanent force of the United States Army that is maintained during peacetime
• Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA), as used by its sympathizers ("The 'RA")
• Rage Against the Machine, rock band from L.A.
• Rise Against, melodic hardcore band from Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Rowing Australia, the governing body for the sport of rowing in Australia.
• Royal Artillery, a Corps of the British Army
• Ra (Norwegian band), a Norwegian psytrance act
• Ra (U.S. band), an American rock band
• The RA Foundation for Research & Analysis, a research foundation based in The Netherlands

Places

• RA Nightclub at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas
• Robert Academy, the name for the former college section of Robert College of Istanbul
• Rolling Acres, a dead mall in Akron, OH
• Roosevelt Academy, a small liberal arts college located in Middelburg in the Netherlands
• Ra, Fiji, a province of Fiji
• Roosna-Alliku, Estonia

Other

• Ra, the sun god of ancient Heliopolis
• Color rendering index The color rendering index (RA) is measured on a scale of 1 to 100. Light with just a single colour has a RA of 1 while natural sunlight has a RA of 100
• Ra (kana), the Japanese kana ら and ラ
• Radio altimeter
• Radium or Ra on the periodic table
• Ra (board game), a board game for three to five players designed by Reiner Knizia and based on ancient Egyptian culture
• Relation algebra, a type of mathematical structure
• RemoteAccess BBS software
• Resettlement Administration, a New Deal program under Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Resident Advisor, an online electronic music magazine dedicated to the global dance music scene
• Rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic, inflammatory autoimmune disorder that causes the immune system to attack the joints
• Right ascension, an astronomical term for one of the two coordinates of a point on the celestial sphere when using the equatorial coordinate system
• Right atrium, one of the four chambers of the heart
• Rocket Arena, a free mod for the multiplayer first-person shooter Quake series
• Nepal Airlines, IATA code
• A half-step below Re on the solfege musical scale
• Ra I and Ra II, reed boats used by Thor Heyerdahl's transatlantic expeditions
• Rayleigh number, in physics
• The Winged Dragon of Ra, from the Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh franchise
• Ra Cailum class battleship, a class of spaceships in the Gundam anime universe
• The file extension of a RealAudio file
• The abbreviation for Command & Conquer: Red Alert or its sequel Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
• The irreverent "Religious Advisor" of a Hash House Harriers club
• Ra (album), the first studio album by the group Utopia
• RA0 to RA4 are ISO 217 standard paper sizes
• Radhiallahu 'anhu
• Retinol also known as retinoic acid (RA)
• Réseau Albert - a group of metre gauge railways centred on Albert, Somme in France
• SJ Ra, a Swedish locomotive

[edit] See also

• RAH (disambiguation)
• RAS
• Ras (disambiguation)