R Governmental & Military Abbreviation

Residential

Range Rate

Royal

Mast or sail next above topgallant.

Right

A short-lived (typically less than 90 days) call option for purchasing additional stock in a firm, issued by the firm to all its shareholders on a pro rata basis.

Returning

Reverse

Rare

Reach

Distance that an excavator arm can extend. A stream section with fairly homogenous characteristics. REACH is the system for Registration, Evaluation and Assessment of Chemicals being proposed under the EU Chemicals Policy.

Rider

An additional rib on inside of sheathing of hold of a wooden vessel. A second tier of casks or barrels. A riding turn of rope.

Route

Consecutive links in a network served by single flight numbers, eg QF1 operates SYD/BKK/LHR as a single route. The path that network traffic follows from its source to its destination. also cut-through. The URL used to direct requests to an application. A route is made up of an optional host and a domain that are specified when an application is pushed. For example, in the route myapp.example.com, myapp is the host and example.com is the domain.