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Revenge of the Mummy Revenge of the Mummy is an indoor steel roller coaster featured at both the Universal Orlando Resort and the Universal Studios Hollywood theme parks. Both coasters are based upon the popular Mummy movie franchise directed by Stephen Sommers.
Revenge of the Mummy (Florida) Revenge of the Mummy is an indoor steel roller coaster featured at both the Universal Orlando Resort and the Universal Studios Hollywood theme parks. Both coasters are based upon the popular Mummy movie franchise directed by Stephen Sommers.
Revenge of the Mummy (Hollywood) Revenge of the Mummy is an indoor steel roller coaster featured at both the Universal Orlando Resort and the Universal Studios Hollywood theme parks. Both coasters are based upon the popular Mummy movie franchise directed by Stephen Sommers.
Revenge of the Mutant Camels Revenge of the Mutant Camels is a surreal horizontally-scrolling shooter computer game, designed and programmed by Jeff Minter and released on the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and IBM PC. The Commodore 64 version of the game was commercially released; the versions for other platforms, which had significant gameplay and graphical enhancements and were released several years afterwards, were distributed as shareware.
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise is the 1987 sequel to the 1984 film Revenge of the Nerds. Its cast featured most of the main actors from the earlier film, including Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Curtis Armstrong, Larry B.
Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation Revenge of the Nerds Nerds III: The Next Generation is a 1992 made for TV sequel to the 1984 film Revenge of the Nerds. In the beginning of the movie the new generation of nerds now rule the school, but this changes with the new generation of jocks.
Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love is a 1994 sequel to the 1984 film Revenge of the Nerds. In this movie Dudley (Booger) Dawson (Curtis Armstrong) is getting married, but the father of the bride tries to stop them.
Revenge of the Ninja Revenge of the Ninja (1983) is an action movie starring ShĂ´ Kosugi as a ninja. It is wrongfully considered part of a ninja trilogy, starting with Enter the Ninja (1981) and ending with Ninja III: The Domination (1984), but the stories are not directly related.
Revenge of the Old Queen Revenge of the Old Queen is the title of the intended third film in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (RHPS) comedy-horror musical trilogy. The script was written by Richard O'Brien in the late 1980s who had also written RHPS and its follow-up, Shock Treatment.
Revenge of the Pink Panther Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) is the sixth film in the Pink Panther film series and last with Peter Sellers, though a later film in the series (Trail of the Pink Panther) used Sellers footage compiled from previous Panther movies.
Revengers The Revengers are a fictional team of supervillains who were formed to fight A-Next in Marvel Comics' MC2 series A-Next. It is also the name of a comical parody of the Avengers in Earth-665, the seeting of Marvel's parody comic Not Brand Ecch.
Revengers Tragedy Revengers Tragedy is a film version of the play The Revenger's Tragedy (author unknown; popular candidates for authorship include Thomas Middleton and Cyril Tourneur), first published in 1606. It was directed by Alex Cox and adapted for the screen by Cox's fellow Liverpudilan, Frank Cottrell Boyce.
ReventazĂłn River The ReventazĂłn River or Rio ReventazĂłn, also called the Parismina River or Rio Parismina, is a river in Costa Rica, it is 145 km long and flows into the Caribbean sea. It rises in Meseta Central and flows through the Turrialba, ReventazĂłn and OrosĂ­ Valleys.
Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office The Revenue and Customs Prosecution Office (RCPO) was created under the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 as an independent prosecution body to take responsibility in the England, Wales and Northern Ireland for the prosecution of criminal offences in cases previously within the purview of the Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise (HMCE). In Scotland it is a Specialist Reporting Agency and the cases are then prosecuted by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.
Revenue Act of 1864 The Internal Revenue Act of 1864 increased the income tax rates established by the Internal Revenue Act of 1862. The measure was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln and was the second federal income tax law in United States history.
Revenue Act of 1913 The United States Revenue Act of 1913 also known as the Tariff Act or Underwood Tariff (ch. 16, , October 3, 1913), imposed the first federal income tax following the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment and lowered basic tariff rates from 40% to 25%, well below the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909.
Revenue Act of 1940 The Revenue Act of 1940 temporarily and permanently increased individual income tax rates, temporarily and permanently increased corporate tax rates (top rate rose from 19% to 22.1%), and temporarily increased most excise tax rates to 30-50%.
Revenue Act of 1941 The Revenue Act of 1941 permanently extended the temporary individual, corporate, and excise tax increases of 1940, increased the excess profits tax by 10 percentage points (top rate rose from 50 to 60 percent), and increased corporate tax rates 6-7 percentage points (top rate increased from 24 percent to 31 percent).
Revenue Act of 1942 The United States Revenue Act of 1942 increased individual income tax rates, increased corporate tax rates (top rate rose from 31 % to 40 %), and reduced the personal exemption amount from $1,500 to $1,200 (married couples). The exemption amount for each dependent was reduced from $400 to $350.
Revenue Act of 1945 The United States Revenue Act of 1945 repealed the excess profits tax, reduced individual income tax rates (the top rate fell from 94 percent to 86.45 percent), and reduced corporate tax rates (the top rate dropped from 40 percent to 38 percent).
Revenue Act of 1948 The United States Revenue Act of 1948 reduced individual income tax rates 5-13 percent, increased the personal exemption amount from $500 to $600, permitted married couples to split their incomes for tax purposes, and provided additional exemption for taxpayers age 65 and older.
Revenue Act of 1964 The United States Revenue Act of 1964, signed February 26th, 1964 by President Lyndon Johnson reduced individual income tax] rates (the top rate fell from 91 percent to 70 percent), and reduced the top [[Corporate tax|corporate rate from 52 percent to 48 percent.
Revenue Act of 1978 The United States Revenue Act of 1978 reduced individual income taxes (widened tax brackets and reduced the number of tax rates), increased the personal exemption from $750 to $1,000, reduced corporate tax rates (the top rate falling from 48 percent to 46 percent), increased the standard deduction from $3,200 to $3,400 (joint returns), increased the capital gains exclusion from 50 percent to 60 percent, and repealed the non-business exemption for state and local gasoline taxes.
Revenue bond A revenue bond is a special type of municipal bond distinguished by its guarantee of repayment solely from revenues generated by a specified revenue-generating entity associated with the purpose of the bonds. Unlike general obligation bonds, only the revenues specified in the legal contract between the bond holder and bond issuer are required to be used for repayment of the principal and interest of the bonds; other revenues (notably tax revenues) and the general credit of the issuing agency are not so encumbered.
Revenue passenger mile Revenue passenger miles (RPMs) is a measure of a passenger traffic for an airline flight, bus, or train calculated by multiplying the total number of revenue-paying passengers aboard the vehicle by the distance traveled measured in miles. The calculation can be more complex for long-distance buses and trains (and some planes) where passengers may board and disembark at intermediate stops.
Revenue Protection Inspector Revenue Protection Inspectors (RPIs) or Revenue Protection Officers (RPOs) patrol different forms of public transport, particularly trains, in the United Kingdom issuing penalty fares to passengers who travel without a valid ticket. They also work at railway stations checking passengers' tickets as they board and alight trains.
Revenue recognition Revenue recognition principle is one of the four main principles in the US generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). It is also the main difference between cash basis accounting and accrual basis accounting.
Revenue ruling Revenue Rulings are administrative rulings by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that apply the law to particular factual situations. If the IRS determines that a ruling is of general interest, it publishes it in the Internal Revenue Bulletin as a Revenue Ruling.
Revenue sharing Revenue sharing is the splitting of operating profits and losses between the general partner and limited partners in a limited partnership. More generally, the practice of sharing operating profits with a company's employees, or of sharing the revenues resulting between companies in an alliance.
Revenue stamp A revenue stamp, tax stamp or fiscal stamp is a type of adhesive label used to collect taxes or fees on various items. Many countries of the world have used them, for documents, tobacco products, liquor, drugs, playing cards, hunting licenses and other kinds of things.
Revenue-cap regulation Revenue-cap regulation regulation is a system for setting the prices charged by regulated monopolies. It is contrasted with rate-of-return regulation, in which utilities are permitted a set rate of return on capital, and with price-cap regulation where total revenue is the regulated variable.
Rever dynasty The Rever Dynasty- (STATE OF TARANGAGADH) is the biggest dynasty in Rajasthan history and state is Tarangagadh and Mandu- division of province- the great role played in the history of war in Rajasthan by Revers Dynasty's Kings was more than 5000 wars.
Revera (elm cultivar) An American cultivar raised by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) as selection 1193-3, the tree was derived from the same parentage as Repura. The tree was registered in 1993 as Revera by Conrad Appel KG, of Darmstadt, Germany, but does not appear to have been commercially released (2007).
Reverb Reverb, the critically-acclaimed weekly HBO music television series spotlighting emerging talent, ran for four seasons (1997-2001). Reverb captured the energy and spontaneity of live music by taking viewers on stage, backstage, and into the audience at some of the premier venues in the United States.
Reverberation Reverberation is the persistence of sound in a particular space after the original sound is removed. When sound is produced in a space, a large number of echos build up and then slowly decay as the sound is absorbed by the walls and air, creating reverberation, or reverb.
Reverberation room A reverberation room or reverberation chamber is an acoustically designed room for uniform distribution of acoustic energy. It is used to determine the sound power of a source and also to find the absorption coefficient of a material.
Reverberatory furnace A reverberatory furnace is a metallurgical or process furnace that isolates the material being processed from contact with the fuel, but not from contact with combustion gases. The term reverberation is used here in a generic sense of rebounding or reflecting, without the more common acoustic denotation.
Revere Beach (MBTA station) Revere Beach Station of the MBTA, is a station on the Blue Line, serving the town of Revere, Massachusetts. The station was rebuilt in the mid 90s when it along with the other stations from Wonderland to Suffolk Downs underwent complete renovations.
Revere Beach, Revere Revere Beach is a beach in Revere, Massachusetts. It is one of the most famous and popular beaches in Massachusetts, due to both its proximity to Boston and its status as the oldest public beach in the United States.
Revere Local School District, Summit County, Ohio The Revere Local School District is located directly between Bath, Ohio and Richfield Village, Ohio. The District is broken up into four schools, Revere High School, Revere Middle School, Bath Elementary School, and Hillcrest Elementary School.
Revere, Massachusetts Revere is a city in Suffolk County, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a state of the United States of America. It borders Winthrop, East Boston and Chelsea to the south, Everett and Malden to the west, Saugus and Lynn to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.
Reverence (Emperor album) Reverence is an EP by the black metal band Emperor. It was released as a teaser for their upcoming full length album Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk, with the first song being a track from that album, the second a song that was recorded for it but subsequently left off, and the third song an instrumental version of Inno A Satana from In The Nightside Eclipse.
Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping The Church of Stop Shopping is an activist performance group based in New York City, led by Reverend Billy, the stage name of Bill Talen. Using the form of a revival meeting, on sidewalks and in chain stores, Reverend Billy and his gospel choir exhort consumers to abandon the products of large corporations and mass media; the group also preaches a broader message of economic justice and anti-militarism, protesting sweatshops and the Iraq War.
Reverend Bob Levy "Reverend" Bob Levy is a stand-up comedian and radio personality who produces and participates in Howard Stern's Roasts. Levy is also a co-host of Miserable Men on Sirius Satellite Radio's Howard 101 with Shuli and Jim Florentine.
Reverend David Jones Davies(1921-1965) In the history of Wales in the twentieth century David Jones Davies deserves to be remembered for his contribution to Nonconformity,youth work and the administration of education.Born in the market town of Tregaron in mid=Cardiganshire on 7 Februrary 1921,the son of Dan Davies,who had been a coal miner,and this explains the commitment of the son to the Labour Party in his adult life.
Reverend guitars Reverend Guitars was launched in 1996 by noted guitar and amp technician Joe Naylor, a graduate of the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery. Reverend guitars are known for their combination of unorthodox construction methods and retro vibe, topped off by top-quality playability and sound at a price that the working man can afford.
Reverend Gary Davis Reverend Gary Davis also Blind Gary Davis ( April 30, 1896 – May 5, 1972) was an African American blues and gospel singer as well as a renowned guitarist. His unique finger-picking style was influential on many subsequent artists and his students in New York City included Jorma Kaukonen (of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna), Stefan Grossman, Roy Book Binder, Woody Mann, and Ernie Hawkins.
Reverend Harry Powell Reverend Harry Powell is a fictional character, the villain of Davis Grubb's 1953 novel The Night of the Hunter. He was portrayed by Robert Mitchum in Charles Laughton's 1955 film adaptation, and by Richard Chamberlain in the 1991 made for TV remake.
Reverend John Church The Reverend John Church was a clergyman who performed same-sex marriages in the White Swan, one of the oldest gay bars, located on Vere Street, London. In 1810, the White Swan was raided, leading to two executions for the then crime of sodomy.
Reverend Louis Gigante Reverend Louis Gigante is a retired Catholic priest, former Bronx city council member, the founder of the influential South East Bronx Community Organization (SEBCO), legendary Bronx community activist, and brother and alleged criminal associate of two legendary figures in the Genovese crime family, family boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante and top capo/acting boss Mario Gigante. Opinions about Father Gigante among locals of the Bronx borough of New York City differ wildly, with some pointing to his career as a community and tenants-right activist as proof of his heroism on behalf of local residents, and others pointing to his family's deep criminal ties and Father Gigante's alleged second career as a slum lord as evidence of what they view as his essentially corrupt, hypocritical nature.
Reverend Mother * In Roman Catholic and Anglican/Episcopal usage, Reverend Mother is the customary title or salutation for the Abbess or female leader of a religious institution such as a convent or abbey, and for certain other officials of religious orders of women (most often, the general superior).
Reverend Mother (Dune) A Reverend Mother is both a Bene Gesserit title and a class or level associated with fictional characters from the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. A Reverend Mother is generally a woman of the Bene Gesserit order who has completed her training.
Reverend Ray Davey The Reverend Robert Raymond Davey (born Belfast, 1915) is a Presbyterian minister in Northern Ireland and the founder of the Corrymeela Community. He was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, Queen's University Belfast, Assembly's College, and New College, Edinburgh.
Reverend Timothy Lovejoy Voiced by Harry Shearer, Reverend Timothy Lovejoy is the local minister in the long-running animated TV show The Simpsons. Matt Groening has indicated that Reverend Lovejoy is named after NW Lovejoy Street in Portland, Oregon, which is in turn named for Portland co-founder Asa Lovejoy.
Reveries of a Solitary Walker Reveries of a Solitary Walker (or Reveries of the Solitary Walker, French title: Les RĂŞveries du promeneur solitaire) is an unfinished book by French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, written between 1776 and 1778. It was the last of a number of works composed toward the end of his life which were deeply autobiographical in nature.
Reversal of Fortune Reversal of Fortune is a 1985 book by Alan Dershowitz which tells the true story of the permanent coma of socialite Sunny von BĂĽlow and the trial for attempted murder and subsequent acquittal of her husband, Claus von BĂĽlow. The book was made into a 1990 film starring Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver, Annabella Sciorra, Uta Hagen, Fisher Stevens, Jack Gilpin and Christine Baranski.
Reversal symmetry Reversal symmetry is a voting system criterion that is stated as follows: If a candidate A is the unique winner, and the individual preferences of each voter are inverted, then candidate A must not be elected. Methods that satisfy reversal symmetry include Schulze method, Borda count.
Reverse (American football) A reverse (sometimes referred to as an end reverse) is an unorthodox play (often called a trick play) in American football. The play resembles a sweep, but before the running back crosses the line of scrimmage, he hands the ball off to a wide receiver going in the reverse (opposite) direction of where the running back was going.
Reverse auction A reverse auction (also called procurement auction, e-auction, sourcing event, e-sourcing or eRA) is tool used in industrial business-to-business procurement. It is a type of auction in which the role of the buyer and seller are reversed, with the primary objective to drive purchase prices downward.
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) is a network layer protocol used to resolve an IP address from a given hardware address (such as an Ethernet address). It has been rendered obsolete by BOOTP and the more modern DHCP, which both support a much greater feature set than RARP.
Reverse Ajax Reverse Ajax, shorthand for Reverse Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a web development technique for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by providing real time information in a web page.
Reverse backup sensors Reverse backup sensors (also known as reverse parking sensors, reverse parking systems, and reverse backing systems) are a technology that allows the driver of a car, truck, van or commercial vehicle to be alerted to nearby objects in their path.
Reverse bite injury A reverse bite injury (also called a clenched fist injury, or closed fist injury) is when one person punches another person in the face. The skin (and sometimes tendons) of his or her knuckles are cut against the teeth of the person he or she is punching.
Reverse breathing Reverse Breathing is a technique, associated with yoga, of by will expanding the abdomen while breathing out through the nose, and then compressing it while inhaling via the mouth -- the opposite of what an abdomen would do during natural, instinctive breathing. Via this process there can be paid especially close attention to that act of breathing.
Reverse commons In the reverse commons effect the opposite results of the law of the commons effect are witnessed. That is, individuals contributing knowledge and content for the good of the community rather than extracting resources for their own personal gain.
Reverse compensation Reverse compensation, in United States broadcasting, is the practice of a television station paying a television network in exchange for being permitted to affiliate with that network. The word "reverse" stems from the historical practice of networks paying stations to carry their programs, to compensate for the revenue that these stations would lose by carrying networked advertisements.
Reverse cowgirl The reverse cowgirl (or, rarely, reverse Amazon) is a human sex position in which the man lies on his back and the woman sits on top of him facing his feet, with his legs between her legs, and with her groin aligned over his for penetration. It is one of a number of female superior (woman on top) sexual positions.
Reverse diffusion Reverse diffusion refers to a situation where the transport of particles (atoms or molecules) in a medium occurs towards regions of lower concentration gradients, opposite to that observed during diffusion. This phenomenon occurs during phase separation and is described by the Cahn-Hilliard Equation.
Reverse discrimination Reverse discrimination includes discriminatory policies or acts that benefit a historically socio-politically non-dominant group (typically women and minorities), at the expense of a historically socio-politically dominant group (typically men and majority races).
Reverse echo Reverse echo or reverb is a slightly unusual sound effect created as the result of recording an echo or delayed signal of an audio recording whilst being played backwards. The original recording is then played forwards accompanied by the recording of the echo or delayed signal which is now in reverse.
Reverse engineering Reverse engineering (RE) is the process of discovering the technological principles of a device or object or system through analysis of its structure, function and operation. It often involves taking something (e.
Reverse freefall coaster A Reverse free-fall coaster is a roller coaster where the car is accelerated out of the station along a long level track using Linear Induction Motors, then heads straight up a vertical spike of track, free falling back down to return to the station. An example of a reverse free fall coaster is Superman the Escape.
Reverse genetics Reverse genetics is an approach to discovering the function of a gene that proceeds in the opposite direction of so called forward genetic screens of classical genetics. Simply put, while forward genetics seeks to find the genetic basis of a phenotype or trait, reverse genetics seeks to find the possible phenotypes that may derive from a specific genetic sequence enumerated during DNA sequencing.
Reverse logistics Reverse logistics is the logistics process of removing new or used products from their initial point in a supply chain, such as returns from consumers, over stocked inventory, or outdated merchandise and redistributing them using disposition management rules that will result in maximized value at the end of the items original useful life. A reverse logistics operation is considerably different from forward logistics.
Reverse mathematics Reverse mathematics is a program in mathematical logic that seeks to determine which axioms are required to prove theorems of mathematics. The method can briefly be described as “going backwards from the theorems to the axioms” rather than the usual direction (from the axioms to the theorems).
Reverse migration Reverse migration is a phenomenon in bird migration. Although some large birds such as swans learn migration routes from their parents, in most small species, such as passerines, the route is genetically programmed, and young birds can innately navigate to their wintering area.
Reverse mortgage A reverse mortgage (known as lifetime mortgage in the UK) is a type of loan available to seniors (62 and over in the US), used as a way of converting their home equity (the value of the home, minus the amount of any existing mortgages) into one or more cash payments while retaining ownership of the property (continuing to live there) and avoiding monthly payments. Repayment of the loan is deferred until the borrower is no longer living in the home.
Reverse Monte Carlo Reverse Monte Carlo (RMC) is a variation of the standard Metropolis-Hastings algorithm to solve an inverse problem probing the configuration space though a random walk in search for set of parameters that is consistent with experimental data. An inverse problem is the task that often occurs in many branches of science and mathematics where the values of some model parameter(s) must be obtained from the observed data.
Reverse onus A reverse onus clause is a provision within a statute that shifts the burden of proof on to the individual specified to disprove an element of the offence. Typically, this provision concerns a shift in burden onto a defendant in either a criminal offence or tort claim.
Reverse osmosis Reverse osmosis is the process of pushing a solution through a filter that traps the solute on one side and allows the pure solvent to be obtained from the other side. More formally, it is the process of forcing a solvent from a region of high solute concentration through a membrane to a region of low solute concentration by applying a pressure in excess of the osmotic pressure.
Reverse osmosis plant A reverse osmosis plant is a manufacturing plant where the process of reverse osmosis takes place. An average modern reverse osmosis plant needs six kilowatt-hours of electricity to desalinate one cubic metre of water.
Reverse Osmosis A Cappella Reverse Osmosis is a sixteen-person mixed a cappella group at the University of Southern California founded in January of 2001. Reverse Osmosis (RO) routinely performs on the USC campus, but has also toured the East and West Coast, performing in Times Square in NYC and Ghirardelli Square on San Francisco Bay.
Reverse perspective Reverse perspective, also called inverse perspective or Byzantine perspective, is a technique of perspective drawing where the further the objects are, the larger they are drawn. The lines diverge against the horizon, rather than converge as in linear perspective.
Reverse prayer position The Reverse prayer position, a technique used in BDSM play, involves restraint of a person's arms by binding them behind the person's back, with the hands placed between the shoulders, palm to palm, and the wrists bound together. It is thus similar to the traditional prayer position, but with the arms behind, rather than in front of, the bound person, thus preventing use of the arms.
Reverse Polish notation Reverse Polish notation (RPN), also known as postfix notation, was invented by Australian philosopher and computer scientist Charles Hamblin in the mid-1950s, to enable zero-address memory stores. It is derived from the Polish notation, which was introduced in 1920 by the Polish mathematician Jan Łukasiewicz.
Reverse roundhouse kick Reverse Roundhouse kick, (in Korean, "bandae dollyo chagi", in Japanese, "ushiro mawashi geri") is one of the most popular kicks seen in self defence, competition sparring and martial arts films (Martial arts film). It is literally a roundhouse kick performed backwards (ie: the person turns around in a circle, hooking the heel of their foot into opponent).
Reverse slope defence A reverse slope defence is a military term that describes positioning technique characterised by the location of defensive forces on a slope of a hill, ridge, or mountain that descends away from the enemy. It is one of several time tested techniques that may be used as part or all of a unit defense.
Reverse stratigraphy Reverse Stratigraphy: (Sometimes known as Inverted stratigraphy): The result when one sediment is unearthed by human or natural actions and moved elsewhere, whereby the latest material will be deposited on the bottom of the new sediment, and progressively earlier material will be deposited higher and higher in the stratigraphy. Such events can be triggered by rockslides, treethrows, or other events which cause the strata of a deposit to be flipped or reversed .
Reverse synthesis Reverse Logic Synthesis, though still not a videly accepted term, relates to Logic synthesis. While, with the advent of Electronic-System-Level, ESL design, Architectural Synthesis is gaining acceptance, we still often integrate existing RTL IP blocks with blocks generated through ESL tools.
Reverse Standards Conversion Reverse Standards Conversion or RSC is a process developed by the BBC for the restoration of video recordings which have already been converted between different video standards using early conversion techniques.
Reverse takeover A reverse takeover (RTO), also known as a back door listing, or a reverse merger, is a financial transaction that results in a privately held company becoming a publicly held company without going the traditional route of filing a prospectus and undertaking an initial public offering (IPO). Rather, it is accomplished by the shareholders of the private company selling all of their shares in the private company to the public company in exchange for shares of the public company.
Reverse tape effects Reverse tape effects are special effects created by recording sound onto magnetic tape and then physically reversing the tape so that when the tape is played back, the sounds recorded on it are literally heard in reverse.
Reverse telephone directory A reverse telephone directory (also known as a blackpages directory or reverse phone lookup) is a collection of telephone numbers and associated customer details. However, unlike a standard telephone directory, where the user uses customer's details (such as name and address) in order to retrieve the telephone number of that person or business, a reverse telephone directory allows users to search by a telephone service number in order to retrieve the customer details for that service.
Reverse tolerance Reverse tolerance is the phenomenom of a reversal of the side-effects from a drug, or the reduction of insensitivity caused by repeated use of the drug (see drug tolerance). Typically this involves the use of an additional medication, or abstinence from a drug for a period of time, known as a drug holiday.
Reverse transcriptase In biochemistry, a reverse transcriptase, also known as RNA-dependent DNA polymerase, is a DNA polymerase enzyme that transcribes single-stranded RNA into double-stranded DNA. Normal transcription involves the synthesis of RNA from DNA, hence reverse transcription is the reverse of this, as it synthesises DNA from RNA.
Reverse transcriptase inhibitor Reverse transcriptase inhibitors (RTIs) are a class of antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV infection. RTIs inhibit activity of reverse transcriptase, a viral DNA polymerase enzyme that HIV needs to reproduce.
Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction In molecular biology, reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is a laboratory technique for amplifying a defined piece of a ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecule. The RNA strand is first reverse transcribed into its DNA complement or complementary DNA, followed by amplification of the resulting DNA using polymerase chain reaction.
Reverse Turing test The term reverse Turing test has no single clear definition, but has been used to describe various situations based on the Turing test in which the objective and/or one or more of the roles have been reversed between computers and humans.
Reverse Underground Railroad The Reverse Underground Railroad is the term used for the historical practice of kidnapping free Black Americans from free states and transporting them into the American South for sale as slaves. The name is a reference to the Underground Railroad, the informal network of abolitionists and sympathizers who helped to smuggle escaped slaves to freedom, generally in Canada.
Reverse vending machine A reverse vending machine is a device that accepts used (empty) beverage containers and returns money to the user (the reverse of the typical vending cycle). The machines are popular in places that have mandatory recycling laws or container deposit legislation.

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