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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
  • Akademiska Sångföreningen, academic male voice choir of Helsinki, Finland
  • Adult Swim, a programming block on Cartoon Network.

Business legal structures

  • Akciová společnost (a.s.), a Czech form of joint-stock company
  • Akciová spoločnosť (a.s.), a Slovak form of joint-stock company
  • Aktieselskab or , a type of Danish stock-based company
  • Aksjeselskap or AS, a type of Norwegian stock-based company
  • Aktsiaselts or AS, an Estonian form of joint-stock company

Businesses and organizations

  • A.S. Roma, an Italian football club
  • Alaska Airlines, IATA airline designator
  • Armée secrète (Belgium), a Belgian resistance organization
  • KK AS Basket, a Serbian basketball club
  • 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 and research

  • Academia Sinica, the national academy of Taiwan
  • AS-level (disambiguation), with several uses in education
  • Associate of Science, an American academic degree

Language

  • As language, a language of West Papua, Indonesia
  • as, ISO 639-1 code for the Assamese language of India
  • As (cuneiform) sign
  • Aš (cuneiform) sign

Mathematics, science and technology

Computing

Health and medicine

  • Angelman syndrome, a neuro-genetic disorder
  • Ankylosing spondylitis, a type of arthritis
  • Aortic stenosis, a valvular heart disease
  • Asparagine synthase (glutamine-hydrolysing), an enzyme
  • Asperger syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder
  • Auricular splint, a custom-made medical device for maintaining auricular projection and dimensions following second stage auricular reconstruction

Units of measurement

  • Arcsecond, ​1&fras1;60 arcminute, a unit of angular measurement
  • Attosecond or as, 10−18 second, a subunit of time
  • Attosiemens or aS, 10−18 siemens, a subunit 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
  • Arsenic (As), a chemical element with atomic number 33
  • As (beetle), a genus in family Cerylonidae
  • Tropical savanna climate, labelled As or Aw

Places

Europe

  • , a town in the Czech Republic
  • Ås, Akershus, Norway
  • As, Belgium, in Limburg
  • Ås, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway
  • Ås, Swedish name for the Harju quarter in Helsinki, Finland

Other places

  • As-e Jadid (اس جديد, "New As"), a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
  • As-e Qadim (اس قديم, "Old As"), a village in East Azerbaijan Province, 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 (singular: ás, áss, ǫ́ss), one of the pantheon of Norse gods
  • ʿAlayhi s-salām (عليه السلام), Arabic for "Peace be upon him", post-nominal posthumous Islamic honorific

Other uses

See also

  • Aas (surname)
  • All pages with titles beginning with As
  • All pages with titles containing As
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