Definition of "rms" []

• Root mean square (abbreviation)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "As a side note a voltage measured by taking the average of the voltage squared and then taking the square root is called the rms voltage."
• "Here we find that the work of contractors performing foreign affairs functions for the U.S. government is far more opaque, and employees of contract firms have far fewer protections if they decide to come forward with information about abuse."
• "For example, often the changes they want to make to the models to improve the realism of the physics have bad effects: the new scheme does worse (in terms of rms error) than the old scheme, especially where the old scheme had been tuned to compensate for known inaccuracies."