RSS

alternative R.S.S. · alternative R. S. S.

1. InternetabbreviationinitialismInitialism of Rich Site Summary / Really Simple Syndication (“mechanism to follow updates on other websites such as news, music, blogs, etc.”).

   The awesome power of RSS delivered to me this morning a link to a new blog post by Robert X Cringeley. The post, The second coming of Java got me thinking.

   2011 October 17, Matthew Baxter-Reynolds, “Java's second coming? Over my cold, dead RAM-cached database”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2022

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   Another theory is that RSS was always too geeky for regular people. Even the New York Times, which seems to have been eager to adopt RSS and promote it to its audience, complained in 2006 that RSS is a “not particularly user friendly” acronym coined by “computer geeks.”

   2019 January 9, Sinclair Target, “The Rise and Demise of RSS”, in Motherboard, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2019

2. InternetabbreviationinitialismproscribedInitialism of RDF Site Summary.
3. SingaporeabbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of Republic of Singapore Ship (“prefix of Navy ships belonging to the Republic of Singapore Navy”).
4. abbreviationinitialismIndian politicsInitialism of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (“Indian nationalist volunteer organization”).

plural RSSes · alternative R.S.S. · alternative R. S. S.

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablespace flightInitialism of reusable spaceship.
2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of rapid response system.
3. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableaerospaceInitialism of range safety system.
4. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablemathematicsInitialism of residual sum of squares.
5. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of red skin syndrome.