Ra (disambiguation)

Ra is the Sun-god of Ancient Egypt.

Ra or RA may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

  • Ra (Stargate), a character from the film Stargate, based on the Egyptian god
  • Ra (1972 film), a 1972 documentary film about Thor Heyerdahl's expeditions
  • Ra (2014 film), a Tamil fantasy film

Gaming

Music

  • A half-step below Re on the solfège musical scale

Performers

  • Ra (American band), an American rock band
  • Ra (artist), the pseudonym of Raoul Sinier, a French digital painter and electronic musician
  • R.A. the Rugged Man (born c. 1974), American rapper
  • Sun Ra (1914–1993), American jazz musician and philosopher
  • Rise Against, an American punk/hardcore band

Albums

Songs

  • Ra (Inna song), 2018

Other media

Businesses and organizations

Academia

Government, military, and political organizations

Other businesses and organizations

Linguistics

  • Ra (Javanese) (ꦫ), a letter in the Javanese script
  • Ra (kana), the Japanese kana ら and ラ
  • ረ and ራ, Amharic letters that can be read as variations of ra, also related to the Semitic resh
  • Resh or rāʾ, 10th letter of Arabic alphabet
  • Ռ or ṙa, the 28th letter in the Armenian alphabet
  • र, ड़', ढ़, and र्ह, Devanagari letters which can be called ra, ṛa or rha
  • Ԗ, the 23rd letter rha («ра») in the older (1924−1927) Moksha language Cyrillic script
  • ர and ற, Tamil letters articulated as ra, tra or dra depending on the consonant complex

Places

Religion and mythology

  • Ra, the Sun-god of Ancient Egypt
  • , a creature in Scandinavian mythology
  • Rā, a Māori word for the Sun
  • Roua or Ra, a Polynesian deity
  • Tama-nui-te-rā, a Maori Sun-god

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

Computing

Transportation

  • SJ Ra, a Swedish locomotive
  • Radar altimeter, an instrument on aircraft
  • Resolution Advisory, an aircraft instruction from a Traffic Collision Avoidance System

Other uses in science and technology

  • , a popular parameter of roughness, defined as the average of absolute values of deviation from the mean of a surface
  • Color rendering index (), a measure of the ability of a light source to reveal the colors of objects faithfully
  • Radium, a chemical element with symbol Ra
  • Rain (METAR weather code RA)
  • Rayleigh number, in physics
  • Relation algebra, a type of mathematical structure
  • Right ascension, in astronomy
  • Risk analysis, in several fields

People with the surname

  • Armen Ra, Iranian-born American musician
  • Aron Ra, American author, podcaster, and atheist activist
  • Ed Ra (born 1981), American politician

Other uses

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See also

  • RAH (disambiguation)
  • RHA (disambiguation)
  • RAS (disambiguation)
  • Ras (disambiguation)
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