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Renaissance Man
- noun - a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests; "a statistician has to be something of a generalist"
- a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics
Retention Basin
- noun - a storage site similar to a detention basin but the water in storage is permanently obstructed from flowing downstream
Retirement Plan
- noun - a plan for setting aside money to be spent after retirement
Retrocopulation
- - Copulation from behind.
Revised Version
- noun - a British revision of the Authorized Version
Rhombencephalon
- noun - the posterior portion of the brain including cerebellum and brainstem
Richard Feynman
- noun - United States physicist who contributed to the theory of the interaction of photons and electrons (1918-1988)
Right Ascension
- noun - (astronomy) the angular distance eastward along the celestial equator from the vernal equinox to the intersection of the hour circle that passes through the body; expressed in hours and minutes and second; used with declination to specify positions on the
- (astronomy) the equatorial coordinate specifying the angle, measured eastward along the celestial equator, from the vernal equinox to the intersection of the hour circle that passes through an object in the sky; usually expressed in hours and minutes and seconds; used with declination to specify positions on the celestial sphere; "one hour of right ascension equals fifteen degrees"
- an arc of the celestial equator eastward from the vernal equinox
Right Of Action
- noun - the legal right to sue
Ringer Solution
- noun - an aqueous solution containing the chlorides of sodium and potassium and calcium that is isotonic to animal tissues; used to correct dehydration and (in physiological experiments) as a medium for in vitro preparations