Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation radiotelephone
- abbreviation respiratory therapy
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- initialism Alternative form of
R/T . - initialism Right Tackle, term used in American & Canadian Football
- initialism knitting
right twist - initialism computing
real-time - initialism Internet
retweet
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Examples
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The RT-PCR was performed in the presence (RT+) and absence (RT -) of reverse transcriptase with the primer pair used for DNA amplification.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Claudia Filippone et al. 2010
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Class, values, & the new frugality RT@ GenBub RT @
Creative Class 2009
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The rationale for this study involved the hypothesis that adding cytotoxic chemotherapy to the long term AS + RT regimen would improve survival rates by being used in an adjuvant fashion, after the initial period of AS +RT, in an effort to reduce the number of hormone refractory clones earlier in the disease process, rather than waiting for clinically apparent hormone refractory disease to develop.
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(If you don't know "RT" is shorthand for retweeting someone else's message, then you definitely should get this book.)
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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And RT is even less letters & better knowledge transfer than/via.
New microsyntax for Twitter: three pointers and the slasher | FactoryCity 2009
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While most people know that RT is an aggregator of critical reviews, some of our readers may not be aware of Flixster.
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Newscorp will keep a minority stake in RT, and according to the press release (which you can read after the jump), the two entities will remain separate.
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(RT is the abbreviation used to show a message is being retweeted.)
Block Retweets For More Effective Twitter Searches | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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RT is short hand for the Romantic Times Booklover's convention that just took place last week in Columbus, OH.
Back from RT! Jess Granger 2010
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I've heard RT is a great time ... one of these days I'm gonna make it to one (and maybe have my own book to sign ... huh) Until then I'll have to catch you at RWA ... we'll shoot some pool!
Conventions 2008
uselessness commented on the word RT
Short for "retweet." Used on Twitter when reposting someone else's tweet verbatim (or condensed for space) with attribution.
November 17, 2009
reesetee commented on the word RT
And yet every time I see it, I think someone's using my nickname. ;-)
November 18, 2009