ROS

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ros"

English

Proper noun

ROS

1. (ISS, space science, US) Initialism of Russian Orbital Segment. (the part of the International Space Station that was contributed by Russia, or using ROSCOSMOS/Mir specification-based modules)

Coordinate terms

Russian Orbital Segment

• USOS

 

Noun

ROS (plural ROS or ROSs)

1. Abbreviation of reactive oxygen species.
   • 2015, Rup Kumar Kar, “ROS Signaling: Relevance with Site of Production and Metabolism of ROS”, in Dharmendra K. Gupta, José M. Palma, Francisco J. Corpas, editors, Reactive Oxygen Species and Oxidative Damage in Plants Under Stress, Springer, →ISBN, page 117:

     O₂^•− and OH^• are highly unstable (half-life at the level of microseconds and nanoseconds, respectively) and cannot cross membrane, while H₂O₂, though not a free radical but a ROS, is relatively stable (half-life around 1 ms) (Møller et al. 2007) and can cross membranes through aquaporins.

   • 2024 November 11, Stephanie Caty, 10:29 from the start, in How Not Sleeping Actually Kills You‎^[1], spoken by Stefan Chin, SciShow, via YouTube:

     Either way, a set of antioxidants worked to reduce the levels of ROS, and the [fruit] flies could live to the ripe old age of 40 days… if not a teensy bit longer! But most importantly, this demonstrated that the death from lack of sleep was not only correlated with the production of ROS, but caused by it.

2. (singular only) Abbreviation of Robot Operating System, a robotic middleware.
3. (plural only) Initialism of rights of survivorship.

   Synonym: JWROS

Coordinate terms

reactive oxygen species

• free radical
• RNS

 

Anagrams

• ORS, ORs, Ors, RSO, SRO, sor