AS
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AS, As, A/S or similar may refer to:
Art, entertainment, and media
- "As" (song), a song by Stevie Wonder
- Diario AS, a Spanish sports newspaper
- Adult Swim, an adult-oriented block of television programming on Cartoon Network
- Akademiska Sångföreningen, or the Academic Male Voice Choir of Helsinki, a Finnish choir
Business legal structures
- Akciová společnost (a.s.), a Czech form of joint stock company
- Aktieselskab or A/S, a type of Danish stock-based company
- Aksjeselskap or A/S, a type of Norwegian stock-based company
Businesses and organizations
- A.S. Roma, an Italian football club
- Abilene and Southern Railway, in Texas, US
- Air Spain, a defunct Spanish airline
- Alaska Airlines (IATA airline designator AS)
- Armée secrète (Belgium), a Belgian resistance organization
- Armée secrète, a French resistance organization
- Oakland Athletics, an American baseball team, referred to as the A's
- Australian Standards, a standards organisation established in 1922
Education
- AS-level (disambiguation), with several uses in education
- Associate of Science, an American academic degree
Language
- As (cuneiform) sign
- Aš (cuneiform) sign, pronounced similarly
- Assamese language (ISO 639 language code)
Mathematics, science and technology
Computing
- as (Unix), generic name for the assembler program as used on Unix systems
- .as, the Internet country code top-level domain for American Samoa
- ActionScript, a programming language originally developed by Macromedia and currently by Adobe for developing Flash and Flex applications
- Authentication server, a server that provides authentication services to users
- Autonomous system (Internet), a collection of IP networks
Health and medicine
- Adrenergic system, a part of history of neurology
- Anabolic steroids, a class of drugs that have similar effects to testosterone
- Angelman syndrome, a neuro-genetic disorder
- Ankylosing spondylitis, an autoimmune degenerative disease of the spine and related joints
- Aortic stenosis, a valvular heart disease
- Asparagine synthase (glutamine-hydrolysing), an enzyme
- Asperger syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder
- Autism spectrum
Units of measurement
- Arcsecond, 1⁄60 arcminute, a unit of angular measurement
- Attosecond or as, one trillionth (long scale) (10−18) or one quintillionth (short scale) (10−18) of a second, a unit of time
- Attosiemens or aS, one trillionth (long scale) (10−18) or one quintillionth (short scale) (10−18) of a siemens, a unit of electric conductance
Other uses in mathematics and science
- Abramowitz and Stegun, a mathematical reference work
- Aggregate supply, in economics, the total supply of goods
- Almost surely or a.s., in probability theory, an event with probability arbitrarily close to one
- Arsenic (As), a chemical element with atomic number 33
Places
Europe
- Aš, a town in the Czech Republic
- Ås, Akershus, a municipality in Akershus county, Norway
- As, Belgium, a municipality in the Belgian province of Limburg
- Ås, Sør-Trøndelag, a village in Tydal municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway
- Ås, Swedish name for the Harju quarter in Helsinki, Finland
Other places
- As-e Jadid ("New As"), Iran
- As-e Qadim ("Old As"), Iran
- American Samoa (ISO 3166 code AS)
- .as, the Internet country code top-level domain for American Samoa
- Australia (NATO country code AS)
Religion
- Æsir (also called "ás", "áss", or "ǫ́ss" in Norse), a member of the pantheon in Norse religion
- ʿAlayhi s-salām, Arabic for "Peace be upon him", commonly found in Islamic writings after the name of an archangel or prophet other than Muhammad, e.g., "Ibrahim (AS)"
Other uses
- As (Roman coin), a coin and unit of weight
- A. S. (automobile), a small French car of the 1920s
- A.S., Anno Societatis, a calendrical system used in the Society for Creative Anachronism
- Annunciation Style (A.S.), used to denote dates documented in British History falling before March 25 for any year before 1752, that are now considered to be in the following years with the adoption of January 1 as New Year's Day
- Anti-submarine warfare
- Ossetians, formerly called "As" or "Asi" by Georgians and Russians
- Submarine tender (U.S. Navy hull classification symbol AS)
See also
- Aas (surname)
- All pages beginning with "AS"
- All pages with titles containing AS
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