ros
/ɹˈɔs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.30 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A diminutive of the female given name Rosalind.
name
A diminutive of the female given name Rosamund.
name
Initialism of Russian Orbital Segment, the part of the International Space Station that was contributed by Russia, or using ROSCOSMOS/Mir specification-based modules.
American usage
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Abbreviation of Robot Operating System (“a kind of robotic middleware”).
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Initialism of Registers of Scotland.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
Usage
- American usage
- Countable
- Uncountable