Ra

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Ra is a word or abridgement that can refer to (for abbreviation, see RA):

Names and titles

• Ra, the Sun-god of Ancient Egypt
• Ra I and Ra II, reed boats used by Thor Heyerdahl’s transatlantic expeditions named after Ra
  • Ra (film), a 1972 documentary film about these expeditions
• Alternate spelling of Roua, a Polynesian deity
• Tama-nui-te-rā, the coincidentally named Maori Sun-god
• Rå, a creature in Scandinavian mythology
• Ra (channeled entity), a group of entities channeled by Carla Rueckert

Arts and entertainment

• Ra (Stargate), a character from the film Stargate, based on the Egyptian god
• Ra (Norwegian band), a Norwegian psytrance act
• Ra (U.S. band), an American rock band
• Ra (artist), the pseudonym of Raoul Sinier, a french digital painter and electronic musician
• Ra (album), the first studio album by the group Utopia
• Ra (board game), a board game for three to five players designed by Reiner Knizia and based on ancient Egyptian culture
• The Winged Dragon of Ra, from the Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh franchise
• Ra Cailum class battleship, a class of spaceships in the Gundam anime universe
• Ra, a nickname, and US based signature couture fashion clothing line endorsed by Robin Arcuri, a supermodel and actress

Places

• Ra, Fiji, a province of Fiji

Letters from several alphabets can be called ra or rha

• ﺭ — rāʾ, 9th letter of Arabic alphabet, see Resh
• ረ, ራ — Amharic letters that can be read as variations of ra, also related to Semitic Resh
• Ռ — ṙa, the 28th letter in Armenian alphabet
• र, ड़', ढ़, र्ह — Devanagari letters which can be called ra, ṛa or rha
• Ra (kana), the Japanese kana ら and ラ
• Ԗ — the 23rd letter rha («ра») in the older (1924−1927) Moksha language cyrillic alphabet

Designations

• Ra is Radium in the periodic table
• A half-step below Re on the solfege musical scale
• Rayleigh number, in physics
• SJ Ra, a Swedish locomotive
• R_a, the arithmetic average of absolute values of the deviation from the mean of a surface profile, a popular parameter of roughness

See also

• RA
• RAH (disambiguation)
• Rha
• RAS
• Ras (disambiguation)

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