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RSS

noun

  1. family of web feed formats
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Wiktionary

name

  1. Initialism of Rich Site Summary / Really Simple Syndication (“mechanism to follow updates on other websites such as news, music, blogs, etc.”).

    The awesome power of RSS delivered to me this morning a link to a new blog post by Robert X Cringeley. The post, The second coming of Java got me thinking.

    Another theory is that RSS was always too geeky for regular people. Even the New York Times, which seems to have been eager to adopt RSS and promote it to its audience, complained in 2006 that RSS is a “not particularly user friendly” acronym coined by “computer geeks.”

  2. Initialism of RDF Site Summary.
  3. Initialism of Republic of Singapore Ship (“prefix of Navy ships belonging to the Republic of Singapore Navy”).
  4. Initialism of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (“Indian nationalist volunteer organization”).

noun

  1. Initialism of reusable spaceship.
  2. Initialism of rapid response system.
  3. Initialism of range safety system.
  4. Initialism of residual sum of squares.
  5. Initialism of red skin syndrome.