Ra (disambiguation)

Template:Sister project Ra is the Sun-god of Ancient Egypt.

Ra or RA may also refer to:

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Arts and entertainmentEdit

Film and televisionEdit

Ra (Stargate), a character from the film Stargate, based on the Egyptian god
Ra (1972 film), a 1972 documentary film about Thor Heyerdahl's expeditions
Ra (2014 film), a Tamil fantasy film

GamingEdit

Rocket Arena, a Quake mod
Command & Conquer: Red Alert, a game

MusicEdit

A half-step below Re on the solfège musical scale

PerformersEdit

Ra (band), an American rock band
Ra (musician), the pseudonym of Raoul Sinier, a French digital painter and electronic musician
R.A. the Rugged Man (born c. 1974), American rapper
Sun Ra (1914–1993), American jazz musician and philosopher
Rise Against, an American punk/hardcore band

AlbumsEdit

Ra (Utopia album), 1977
Ra (Eloy album), 1988

SongsEdit

"Ra", a song by Northlane from Node, 2015
Ra (Inna song), 2018

Other mediaEdit

Ra, a novel by qntm
Ra (board game), a board game for two to five players designed by Reiner Knizia and based on ancient Egyptian culture
Resident Advisor, an online magazine

Businesses and organizationsEdit

AcademiaEdit

Resource Academia, an academic institution in Lahore, Pakistan
Roosevelt Academy, a college in the Netherlands
Royal Academy of Arts, in London, UK
- Royal Academician, one of the 80 practicing artists elected as a member of the Royal Academy
Resident assistant, a student leader

Government, military, and political organizationsEdit

Rainbow Alliance (Liberia), a political alliance in Liberia
Regular Army, the permanent force of an army that is maintained during peacetime
Regulatory affairs, a department in charge of industry-government relations
Provisional Irish Republican Army, Irish Nationalist paramilitary group active during The Troubles
Resettlement Administration, a New Deal government program in the United States
Royal Artillery, a regiment of the British Army

Other businesses and organizationsEdit

Ramblers' Association, a UK organisation for walkers
Registration authority, a body which maintains lists of international standards codes
Rowing Australia, governing body for the sport of rowing in Australia
Road America, which uses the logo "RA"; a racetrack in Wisconsin, USA
Nepal Airlines (IATA code RA)

LinguisticsEdit

Ra (Javanese) (ꦫ), a letter in the Javanese script
Ra (kana), the Japanese kana ら and ラ
ረ and ራ, Amharic letters that can be read as variations of ra, also related to the Semitic resh
Resh or rāʾ, 10th letter of Arabic alphabet
Ռ or ṙa, the 28th letter in the Armenian alphabet
र, ड़', ढ़, and र्ह, Devanagari letters which can be called ra, ṛa or rha
Ԗ, the 23rd letter rha («ра») in the older (1924−1927) Moksha language Cyrillic script
ர and ற, Tamil letters articulated as ra, tra or dra depending on the consonant complex

PlacesEdit

Argentina, license plate code
Ra (island) (or Rah), a small island of Vanuatu
Ra Province in Fiji
- Ra (Fijian Communal Constituency, Fiji)
- Ra (Open Constituency, Fiji)
Republic of Armenia
Rawlins County, Kansas, of which the largest city is Atwood

Religion and mythologyEdit

Ra, the Sun-god of Ancient Egypt
Rå, a creature in Scandinavian mythology
Rā, a Māori word for the Sun that is also used in other Polynesian languages.
Roua or Ra, a Polynesian deity
Tama-nui-te-rā, a Maori Sun-god
Radeyallāhu ′Anhu, an Islamic honorific.

Science and technologyEdit

Biology and medicineEdit

Retinoic acid, a metabolite of vitamin A
Retrograde amnesia, a form of amnesia
Rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic, systemic inflammatory disorder that attacks synovial joints
Refractory anemia, an expression of myelodysplasia

ComputingEdit

.ra, the file extension for RealAudio files
Registration authority, in public key cryptography
RemoteAccess, a BBS software program
Route Advertisement, in networking, part of the Neighbor Discovery Protocol

TransportationEdit

SJ Ra, a Swedish locomotive
Radar altimeter, an instrument on aircraft
Resolution Advisory, an aircraft instruction from a Traffic Collision Avoidance System

Other uses in science and technologyEdit

<math>R_a</math> or Ra, a popular parameter of roughness, defined as the average of absolute values of deviation from the mean of a surface
Color rendering index (<math>R_a</math>), a measure of the ability of a light source to reveal the colors of objects faithfully
Radium, symbol Ra, a chemical element
Rain (METAR weather code RA)
Rayleigh number, in physics
Relation algebra, a type of mathematical structure
Right ascension, in astronomy
Risk analysis, in several fields
Resource adequacy, in electrical power grids

People with the surnameEdit

Armen Ra, Iranian-born American musician
Aron Ra, American author, podcaster, and atheist activist
Ed Ra (born 1981), American politician

Other usesEdit

Ra I and Ra II, reed boats used by Thor Heyerdahl's transatlantic expeditions
Registered Architect, as a post-nominal suffix
Relationship anarchy, the practice of building human relationships in non-hierarchical ways, based on individual agreements rather than cultural norms.
Remittance advice, a letter sent by a customer to a supplier, to inform the supplier that their invoice has been paid
Research assistant, in academia
Resident assistant, in college housing
Republic Act, Philippine laws from 1946 to 1972 and after 1987
One of several ISO 217 standard paper sizes
"Ra", a disc golf midrange disc by Infinite Discs