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Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co – ‘10-Q’ for 9/30/19 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Thursday, 10/31/19, at 3:04pm ET   ·   For:  9/30/19   ·   Accession #:  1558370-19-9551   ·   File #:  1-13122

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size             Issuer                      Filing Agent

10/31/19  Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co      10-Q        9/30/19   55:5.3M                                   Toppan Merrill Bridge/FA

Quarterly Report   —   Form 10-Q   —   Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-Q        Quarterly Report                                    HTML    968K 
 2: EX-31.1     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     27K 
 3: EX-31.2     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     27K 
 4: EX-32       Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     21K 
29: R1          Document and Entity Information                     HTML     70K 
47: R2          Consolidated Balance Sheets                         HTML    136K 
40: R3          Consolidated Balance Sheets (Parenthetical)         HTML     39K 
11: R4          Consolidated Statements of Income                   HTML     87K 
28: R5          Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income     HTML     42K 
46: R6          Consolidated Statements of Equity                   HTML    100K 
39: R7          Consolidated Statements of Equity (Parenthetical)   HTML     20K 
10: R8          Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows               HTML    103K 
30: R9          Basis of Presentation                               HTML     23K 
24: R10         Impact of Recently Issued Accounting Guidance       HTML     21K 
16: R11         Revenues                                            HTML     46K 
38: R12         Goodwill                                            HTML     23K 
55: R13         Intangible Assets, net                              HTML     70K 
23: R14         Debt                                                HTML     45K 
15: R15         Leases                                              HTML     51K 
37: R16         Income Taxes                                        HTML     19K 
54: R17         Equity                                              HTML     58K 
22: R18         Commitments and Contingencies                       HTML     21K 
17: R19         Earnings Per Share                                  HTML     53K 
43: R20         Impairment and Restructuring Charges                HTML     41K 
50: R21         Revenues (Tables)                                   HTML     45K 
32: R22         Goodwill (Tables)                                   HTML     23K 
14: R23         Intangible Assets, net (Tables)                     HTML     70K 
42: R24         Debt (Tables)                                       HTML     34K 
49: R25         Leases (Tables)                                     HTML     55K 
31: R26         Equity (Tables)                                     HTML     52K 
13: R27         Earnings Per Share (Tables)                         HTML     53K 
44: R28         Impairment and Restructuring Charges (Tables)       HTML     42K 
48: R29         Impact of Recently Issued Accounting Guidance       HTML     24K 
                (Details)                                                        
51: R30         Revenues (Details)                                  HTML     33K 
35: R31         Goodwill (Details)                                  HTML     29K 
18: R32         Intangible Assets, net (Details)                    HTML     70K 
25: R33         Debt - Summary (Details)                            HTML     36K 
52: R34         Debt - Other (Details)                              HTML     97K 
36: R35         Leases (Details)                                    HTML     77K 
19: R36         Income Taxes (Details)                              HTML     23K 
26: R37         Equity - Share Repurchases, Dividends, Stock-Based  HTML    108K 
                Compensation (Details)                                           
53: R38         Equity - Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss       HTML     33K 
                (Details)                                                        
34: R39         Commitments and Contingencies - (Details)           HTML     17K 
45: R40         Earnings Per Share (Details)                        HTML     41K 
41: R41         Impairment and Restructuring Charges (Details)      HTML     34K 
12: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     92K 
20: XML         XBRL Instance -- rs-20190930x10qb8f28a_htm           XML   1.23M 
27: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     48K 
 6: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- rs-20190930_cal                 XML    147K 
 7: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- rs-20190930_def                  XML    245K 
 8: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- rs-20190930_lab                       XML    956K 
 9: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- rs-20190930_pre                XML    582K 
 5: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- rs-20190930                           XSD    104K 
21: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks              240±   353K 
33: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001558370-19-009551-xbrl      Zip    177K

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