Ans or ANS or ''variation'', may refer to:

Places

* Ans, Belgium, a municipality in Belgium *

Ans, Denmark Ans is a town in Silkeborg Municipality, Denmark ) , song = ( en, "King Christian stood by the lofty mast") , song_type = National and royal anthem , image_map = EU-Denmark.svg , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , su ...

, a village in Denmark *

Angus, Scotland Angus ( sco, Angus; gd, Aonghas) is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area. The council area borders Aberdeenshire, Dundee City and Perth and Kinross. Main industries include agr ...

, UK; a council area by its Chapman code *

Ainsdale railway station Ainsdale railway station serves the village of Ainsdale near Southport, England. The station is located on the Southport branch of the Merseyrail network's Northern Line. History Ainsdale railway station opened in 1848 as an intermediate stat ...

, England, UK (by station code ANS) *

Andahuaylas Airport Andahuaylas Airport is a high-elevation airport serving Andahuaylas, Peru. It is an important airport in the Apurímac Region as being the only one capable of receiving commercial flights. It is operated by the civil government. Apart from its ...

, Peru (by IATA airport code ANS)

People

* Ans (given name), a Dutch feminine given name *

Anna Nicole Smith Anna Nicole Smith (born Vickie Lynn Hogan; November 28, 1967 – February 8, 2007) was an American model, actress, and television personality. Smith started her career as a ''Playboy'' magazine centerfold in May 1992 and won the title of 1993 ...

, American model and actress

Organizations

* Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States * Astronomical Netherlands Satellite, a Dutch X-ray satellite * American Name Society * American Nuclear Society * American Numismatic Society, formerly the American Numismatic and Archaeological Society * Artificial neural system, or

Artificial neural network Artificial neural networks (ANNs), usually simply called neural networks (NNs) or neural nets, are computing systems inspired by the biological neural networks that constitute animal brains. An ANN is based on a collection of connected unit ...

ANS Group of Companies The ANS Group of Companies is a news and broadcasting company in Azerbaijan. It was founded by three young Azeri journalists, brothers Vahid and Seyfulla Mustafayev in 1990. The Company name, ANS, derives from the first letters of ''Azerbaijan Ne ...

, a news organization in Azerbaijan * , a Cambodian resistance group; see Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea *

Audubon Naturalist Society The Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States (Audubon Naturalist Society) (ANS) is an American non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation and education. Until 1959, the organization was known as the Audubon S ...

, an environmental organization based in the Washington, DC area

Chemistry and biology

Adrenergic nervous system The sympathetic nervous system (SNS) is one of the three divisions of the autonomic nervous system, the others being the parasympathetic nervous system and the enteric nervous system. The enteric nervous system is sometimes considered part of the ...

, adrenaline and noradrenaline neurotransmitters distribution in human body * 8-Anilino-1-naphthalenesulfonic acid, a fluorescent chemical compound used as a molecular probe *

Anthocyanidin synthase In enzymology, a leucocyanidin oxygenase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction :leucocyanidin + 2-oxoglutarate + O2 \rightleftharpoons cis- and trans-dihydroquercetins + succinate + CO2 + 2 H2O The 3 substrates of this enzyme are ...

, an enzyme in the leucocyanidin biosynthesis pathway *

Approximate number system The approximate number system (ANS) is a cognitive system that supports the estimation of the magnitude of a group without relying on language or symbols. The ANS is credited with the non-symbolic representation of all numbers greater than four, ...

, a hypothesized physiological basis for the sense of number *

Autonomic nervous system The autonomic nervous system (ANS), formerly referred to as the vegetative nervous system, is a division of the peripheral nervous system that supplies viscera, internal organs, smooth muscle and glands. The autonomic nervous system is a control ...

, part of the peripheral nervous system in the body

Technology

* , an unofficial file extension for ANSI art * Advanced Network and Services, a non-profit network service provider in the 1990s * American National Standards, defined by the

American National Standards Institute The American National Standards Institute (ANSI ) is a private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organi ...

* ''ans'', a variable in

MATLAB MATLAB (an abbreviation of "MATrix LABoratory") is a proprietary multi-paradigm programming language and numeric computing environment developed by MathWorks. MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation ...

, created automatically when no output argument is specified, referring to the most recent answer * ANS carriage control characters (or ASA control characters), for computer line printers * Asymmetric numeral systems, coding in data compression * Authoritative name server, a DNS server * Air Navigation Services, as delivered by an Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP)

Music

* ''ANS'' (album), a box set from the British band Coil *

ANS synthesizer The ANS synthesizer is a photoelectronic musical instrument created by Russian engineer Evgeny Murzin from 1937 to 1957. The technological basis of his invention was the method of graphical sound recording used in cinematography (developed in Ru ...

, a Russian photoelectric musical instrument

Other uses

* Al Ansar FC, a Lebanese association football club *

Amman National School The Amman National School (ANS) is a private educational institution located in Amman, Jordan. The head principal is Dara Taher. History It was established in 1985 and included only junior Grades. The school started with grades 1–3 in a rent ...

, in Amman, Jordan *

Ansvarlig selskap An (; en, liable company) is a Norwegian legal form, mainly used in small and medium-sized enterprises, in which the company's individual owners are held personally liable for any outstanding debts acquired by the company. It is similar to a ...

, a Norwegian personal responsibility company model * ''

Algemeen Nijmeegs Studentenblad The ''Algemeen Nijmeegs Studentenblad'' is an independent student magazine for the Radboud University Nijmegen. Founded in 1985 by members of the local student union A students' union, also known by many other names, is a student organization p ...

'', a Dutch student magazine