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RTL

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RTL is an abbreviation used in several contexts.

  1. Commonly used for "right-to-left text" -(Arabic, Hebrew) display on a webpage, and related font issues.
  2. As an abbreviation for Radio Télévision Luxembourg or Radio-Télé-Luxembourg, in RTL Group, it is the name of a chain of radio and television stations that are now majority-owned by Bertelsmann AG in Germany. Formed from a nucleus in neighbouring Luxembourg (which allowed privately-owned Radio and TV stations before Germany did) during the 1980s, this includes the biggest commercial television station in Germany, also named RTL (formerly "RTL plus"). RTL's main focus is on sports and entertainment. These stations have expanded in to the [i]RTL Group[/i], which owns televison stations across Europe.
  3. In computer engineering, Register Transfer Language is a definition of how processor instructions are implemented.
  4. In programming language compilers, Register Transfer Language is an intermediate representation used in the GNU Compiler Collection.
  5. Also in computer science, RTL is a common abbreviation for the run-time library that is used with a compiler.
  6. It stood for a now obsolete circuit design for computer logic gates: resistor-transistor logic.