Rho (disambiguation)
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Rho (Ρ or ρ) is the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet.
Rho or RHO also may refer to:
Science and medicine
[edit]- RHO (gene), or Rhodopsin
ρ as a conventional symbol
[edit]- in mathematics
- A length coordinate in coordinate systems with both length and angle coordinates:
- Polar coordinate system
- Spherical coordinate system
- Cylindrical coordinate system
- Toroidal coordinate system
- Toroidal and poloidal coordinates of the Earth's magnetic field
- Spectral radius of a square matrix
- Pollard's rho algorithm
- Pollard's rho algorithm for logarithms
- Prime constant
- Plastic ratio
- in physics
- Density of a material
- Volume charge density
- Resistivity of a material
- Rho meson
- in biology
- Rho factor protein in RNA transcription termination
- Ecology, population damping ratio where ρ = λ1 / |λ2|.
- in statistics
- in other fields
- The reaction constant in the Hammett equation in chemistry
- Rho (finance)
Toponyms
[edit]- Rho, Lombardy, a town in Italy
- Rho Island, a.k.a. Ro, Greece
- Rho River, tributary of the Dora di Bardonecchia, Italy
Acronyms and abbreviations RHO
[edit]- Right-Hand Opponent, in contract bridge
- Red Hot Organization, HIV/AIDS-related charity
- Rhodes International Airport, in Greeter using
People
[edit]- Giacomo Rho (1593–1638), Italian Jesuit missionary in China