What does osres mean?

TL:DR – Visitors to Sciencebase frequently searched for the term osres. It has a number of meanings outlined below.


I can find only two likely definitions of osres:

OSREs – Osmolality/salinity-responsive enhancers (OSREs)

OSREs  – Operational Safeguards Response Evaluations

Maybe they mistyped and were after OSRS, meaning Orbital Structural Reference System. They may have got it back to front and were after RES/OS, defined in the US Navy as Reserve-Out of Service.

Perhaps the visitors hit the s instead of the d and they were actually looking for something historical: Osred I of Northumbria (c. 697 – 716), king of Northumbria  or perhaps Osred II of Northumbria, (789 to 790).

I thought perhaps that it was a given name as I found at least one Facebook account with Osres used before a surname…who knows?