RSS

English

Alternative forms

• R.S.S., R. S. S.

Proper noun

RSS

1. (Internet) Initialism of Rich Site Summary / Really Simple Syndication (“mechanism to follow updates on other websites such as news, music, blogs, etc.”).
   • 2011 October 17, Matthew Baxter-Reynolds, “Java's second coming? Over my cold, dead RAM-cached database”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 June 2022:

     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.

   • 2019 January 9, Sinclair Target, “The Rise and Demise of RSS”, in Motherboard‎^[2], archived from the original on 14 January 2019:

     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.”

2. (Internet, deprecated) Initialism of RDF Site Summary.
3. (military, nautical, Singapore) Initialism of Republic of Singapore Ship (“prefix of Navy ships belonging to the Republic of Singapore Navy”).
4. (Indian politics, Hindutva) Initialism of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (“Indian nationalist volunteer organization”).

Derived terms

• RSS feed

Noun

RSS (countable and uncountable, plural RSSes)

1. (space flight, space flight) Initialism of reusable spaceship.
2. (medicine) Initialism of rapid response system.
3. (rocketry) Initialism of range safety system.
4. (statistics) Initialism of residual sum of squares.
5. Initialism of red skin syndrome.

Anagrams

• srs, SRS, SRs, SSR, /srs, S/RS

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ.ʁɛ.sɛs/ ~ /e.ʁe.sɛs/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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• Audio (France (Agen)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Etymology 1

Proper noun

RSS m

1. (Internet) RSS

Derived terms

• fil RSS
• flux RSS

Etymology 2

Initialism of république socialiste soviétique.

Proper noun

RSS f

1. SSR

Portuguese

Etymology

Initialism of república socialista soviética.

Noun

RSS f (plural RSSs)

1. SSR

Romanian

Noun

RSS f

1. SSR (Soviet Socialist Republic)

Spanish

Noun

RSS f (plural RSSs)

1. initialism of república socialista soviética SSR