Ros

Definitions

1. A diminutive of the female given name Rosalind.
2. Initialism of Russian Orbital Segment, the part of the International Space Station that was contributed by Russia, or using ROSCOSMOS/Mir specification-based modules.
   US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
3. Abbreviation of reactive oxygen species.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
4. A diminutive of the female given name Rosamund.
5. Abbreviation of Robot Operating System, a robotic middleware.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, singular, singular-only, uncountable
6. Initialism of rights of survivorship.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, plural, plural-only, uncountable
7. Initialism of run of station.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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