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ROCKWELL HARDNESS (RH)

A method and standard of measuring the hardness and penetration resistance of a material that is expressed as a number that has been assigned to the depth of penetration to a diamond

ROUGH

An early version of an art work, ad layout, script or story board used to show clients themes to be used awaiting their approval.

RUBBISH

Any solid waste that arises from homes, commercial establishments that doesn’t contain any food waste or ashes.

RUNNING YIELD

The percentage of income annually from bonds at a set price that ignores any ‘pull’ that is caused by its closeness to its date of redemption.

RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE (RFI)

The noise that is heard when one radio wave is inteferred with by another radio wave of the same length. An electronic buzz that is heard when tuning into radio stations.

RANGE CHART (R CHART)

A chart that is used to control the s tability of the variables of a product. A product will be stable over a set range of variables and it will tracked during

RADIOACTIVE

A material is considered to be radioactive if it emits enrgy that causes damage to living tissue. The rays or particles that are emitted are known as alpha, beta and gamma radiation.

RANK AND CUT

A method of decision making that ranks the importance of each project. They are ranked by a set of criteria such as cash flow, risk factors, capital appreciation. The allocation of capital

RADIOGRAPHY

A non-destructive and non-invasive method of seeing inside a particular object. The rays used are gamma and beta radiation and can pass through tissue to expose solid features that are found inside

RANK AND FILE

The general employees that do not include the managerial positions and department heads. It derives from a military term where soldiers stood according to rank and in lines or files.

RADIOISOTOPE

The known chemical variant of a naturally occuring element that is a mutated type and is subsequently mutagenic, carcinogenic and dangerous to living flesh.

RAPID PROTOTYPE

A model that is 3 dimensional and generated by a computer from a CAD drawing. The creation of this prototype model is made using different techniques. These techniques are selective laser sintering,

RADIUS OF OPERATION

The area that is covered by a working vehicle. The vehicle operates on behalf of a company within and confined to a certain geographical area.

RASTER GRAPHICS

Do you know about Raster Graphics? These graphics are made up of thousands of tiny pixels. When a raster image is enlarged you can see allof the little dots that go together

RADON

A gas that occurs naturally as the by product of the decay of naturally occuring uranium. The gas is both odourless and colourless. Although named a s aknown carcinogen by the EPA

RASTER IMAGE PROCESSOR (RIP)

A device that will translate vector images into images that can be printed by dot matrix printers, laser printers and recognised by scanning equipment. It will produce a bitmap of an image.

RACIALISM

Similar to racism where a person is deemed inferior because they belong to a different race of people. That race is a determination of the behaviour that is seen in human beings.

RADON PROGENY

A short-lived decay product or radon 222. the isotopes are from the decay from bismuth 214, known as radium C, lead 214, known as radium B and polonium 214 and 218 that

RASTERIZE

The adjustment of a computerised image so that it can be printed by a dot matrix printer or laser printer. The image will be adjusted in such a way that it becomes

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