RDS

RDS may refer to:

Infrastructure

• Rajolibanda Diversion Scheme, an irrigation project in Mahbubunagar district in Karnataka (India)
• Reddish South railway station, England has the National Rail station code "RDS"

Media

• Radio Dimensione Suono, an Italian radio station
• Réseau des sports, a French-language television network in Canada
  • RDS Info, a sister sports news channel to Réseau des sports
• "RDS", a song by Alastair Galbraith

Organisations

• RDS (for Revenue Discovery Systems), a financial services subsidiary of PRA Group
• Royal Dutch Shell, an Anglo–Dutch multinational oil and gas company
• Research Defence Society, a former British lobby group
• Rough Draft Studios, an animation production studio based in Glendale, California
• Royal Dublin Society, an organisation founded to promote and develop agriculture, arts, industry, and science in Ireland

Science

• Random dot stereogram, a form of 3-D image
• Rate-determining step, the slowest step of a chemical reaction
• Reflectance Difference Spectroscopy, a spectroscopic technique

Health

• Retinal Degeneration, Slow, another name for the human gene Peripherin 2
• Retiree Drug Subsidy, a program offered by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
• Reward Deficiency Syndrome, a term coined by neuro-scientist Dr Kenneth Blum upon discovering the addiction gene
• Respiratory distress syndrome (disambiguation), a lung disease with two forms

Sports

• RDS Arena a stadium within the grounds of the Royal Dublin Society and home to Leinster Rugby
• Run Drop Slide, a move in the sport of skimboarding

Technology

• Amazon Relational Database Service, Amazon's cloud-based Relational Database Service
• Radio Data System, a communications-protocol standard
• SAP Rapid Deployment Solutions, a product of SAP AG
• Reliable Datagram Sockets, a computer-networking protocol used (for example) in Oracle RAC clusters
• Remote Data Services, a deprecated component of Microsoft Data Access Components
• Remote Desktop Services, Microsoft's mechanism for remote access to applications and data on a remote computer over a network (formerly "Terminal Services")
• Romania Data Systems, an ISP in Romania

Weaponry

• Soviet nuclear tests
  • RDS-1, 1949, known as Joe-1 in the United States
  • RDS-2, 1951
  • RDS-3, 1951
  • RDS-4, 1953
  • RDS-5, 1953
  • RDS-6, 1953
  • RDS-9, 1955
  • RDS-37, 1955
  • RDS-220, 1961, known as "Tsar Bomba"
• Red dot sight, type of firearm reflector sight that uses a red light-emitting diode to generate a red aiming dot