As, AS, A. S., A/S or similar may refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

A. S. Byatt Dame Antonia Susan Duffy ( Drabble; born 24 August 1936), known professionally by her former marriage name as A. S. Byatt ( ), is an English critic, novelist, poet and short story writer. Her books have been widely translated, into more than t ...

(born 1936), English critic, novelist, poet and short story writer * "As" (song), by Stevie Wonder * , a Spanish sports newspaper * , an academic male voice choir of Helsinki, Finland *

Adult Swim Adult Swim (AS; stylized as dult swimand often abbreviated as s is an American adult-oriented night-time cable television Television channel, channel that shares channel space with the basic cable network Cartoon Network and is programme ...

, a programming block on Cartoon Network

Business legal structures

* , a Czech form of joint-stock company * , a Slovak form of joint-stock company * or ''A/S'', a type of Danish stock-based company * or ''AS'', a type of Norwegian stock-based company

Businesses and organizations

* A.S. Roma, an Italian football club * Alaska Airlines, IATA airline designator * (Belgium), a World War II resistance organization * '' Diario AS'', a Spanish daily sports newspaper that concentrates particularly on football - branded as AS *

KK AS Basket KK, K.K., kK, k.k., or other sequences of two k's with or without punctuation may refer to: Arts and media *KK, the production code for the 1967 ''Doctor Who'' serial ''The Faceless Ones'' * KK (song), "KK" (song), a 2014 song by Wiz Khalifa * K ...

, a Serbian basketball club * , a French resistance organization *

Oakland Athletics The Oakland Athletics (often referred to as the A's) are an American professional baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West division. The te ...

, an American baseball team referred to as the A's *

Australian Standards Standards Australia is a standards organisation established in 1922 and is recognised through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Australian government as the primary non-government standards development body in Australia. It is a co ...

, a standards organisation established in 1922 *

Voiturettes Automobiles A.S. Voiturettes Automobiles A.S. was a sports automobile manufacturer company based in Courbevoie, and later in La Garenne-Colombes, in France. It was established in 1919 by Lucien Jeannin, and existed until 1928.George Nick Georgano: ''The Beaulieu E ...

, a French-based car manufacturer in 1920s **

AS Type A2 AS Type A2 is a light car made from 1924 until 1926 by Voiturettes Automobiles A.S. initially at Courbevoie, and subsequently relocated to La Garenne-Colombes where they operated till 1928. History and specifications The manufacturer took at sta ...

, a sports car manufactured by Voiturettes Automobiles A.S. * Towarzystwo Budowy Samochodów AS, a Poland-based car manufacturer in 1920s and 1930s **

AS (Polish car) AS S1 and AS S2 were two twin models of passenger cars manufactured by Towarzystwo Budowy Samochodów AS in Warsaw, Poland from 1927 to 1930. The two models differed with their engines and existed in 4 versions of car body style: taxi landaulet, ...

, a passenger car manufactured by Towarzystwo Budowy Samochodów AS

Education and research

Academia Sinica Academia Sinica (AS, la, 1=Academia Sinica, 3=Chinese Academy; ), headquartered in Nangang, Taipei, is the national academy of Taiwan. Founded in Nanking, the academy supports research activities in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from ...

, the national academy of Taiwan *

AS-level (disambiguation) AS-level can refer to: *Advanced Subsidiary level, a public examination taken for the General Certificate of Education, with a smaller course content than an A level. *Advanced Supplementary level, an old qualification which was part of the Advance ...

, any of several uses in education *

Associate of Science An associate degree is an undergraduate degree awarded after a course of post-secondary study lasting two to three years. It is a level of qualification above a high school diploma, GED, or matriculation, and below a bachelor's degree. The f ...

, an American academic degree

Language

As language As is an Austronesian language spoken on the north coast of the Doberai Peninsula, Indonesian New Guinea, but originally from Gag Island Gag Island is one of the Raja Ampat Islands in the Indonesian province of Southwest Papua. It is situat ...

, a language of West Papua, Indonesia * as, ISO 639-1 code for the Assamese language of India *

As (cuneiform) The cuneiform as sign, also aṣ, and az, is found in both the 14th century BC Amarna letters and the ''Epic of Gilgamesh''. As ''as'' and ''az'' in the Amarna letters it appears identical in form in both Amarna letters EA 365, and EA 362. In ...

, a written character *

Aš (cuneiform) 437px, left, Cuneiform sign for aš, dil, ina, ṭel, and as Epic_of_Gilgamesh.html"_;"title="sumerogram_AŠ,_(sign_uses_from_the_''Epic_of_Gilgamesh">sumerogram_AŠ,_(sign_uses_from_the_''Epic_of_Gilgamesh''). File:Louvres-antiquites-moyen-or ...

, a written character

Mathematics, science and technology

Computing

as (Unix) as is a generic command name for an assembler on Unix. Implementations More than one assembler for Unix and Unix-like operating systems has been implemented with an executable called as. Users may be able to determine which implementation (if ...

, an assembler program *

.as .as is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for American Samoa. It is administered by AS Domain Registry. Island Networks, which provides registry services for .gg and .je, is also responsible for the technical operations of . ...

, the Internet country code top-level domain for American Samoa * ActionScript, for Flash and Flex applications * Autonomous system (Internet), a collection of IP networks *

Application server An application server is a server that hosts applications or software that delivers a business application through a communication protocol. An application server framework is a service layer model. It includes software components available to a ...

, a computer running back-end applications

Health and medicine

Angelman syndrome Angelman syndrome or Angelman's syndrome (AS) is a genetic disorder that mainly affects the nervous system. Symptoms include a small head and a specific facial appearance, severe intellectual disability, developmental disability, limited to no f ...

, 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 used as part of ear surgery

Units of measurement

* Arcsecond, arcminute, a unit of angular measurement *

Attosecond An attosecond (symbol as) is a unit of time in the International System of Units (SI) equal to 1×10−18 of a second (one quintillionth of a second). For comparison, an attosecond is to a second what a second is to about 31.71 billion years.

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, symbol As, a chemical element * ''As'' (beetle), a genus in family

Cerylonidae Cerylonidae are small to tiny (), smooth, shiny, hairless beetles, only lightly punctured. There are about 450 species worldwide in 50 or so genera, mostly tropical and subtropical. They are most common under the bark of dead trees, but can also ...

* Tropical savanna climate, labelled ''As'' or ''Aw''

Places

Europe

* , a town in the Czech Republic * , Norway *

As, Belgium As () is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg. On January 1, 2006, As had a total population of 7,497. The total area is 22.07 km² which gives a population density of 340 inhabitants per km². History In 1971 the m ...

, in Limburg * , Norway * , Swedish name for the quarter in Helsinki, Finland

Other places

* (, "New As"), a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran * (, "Old As"), a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran * American Samoa (ISO 3166 code AS) **

, the Internet country code top-level domain for American Samoa *

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

(NATO country code AS)

Religion

* (singular: , , ), one of the pantheon of Norse gods * ' (), Arabic for " Peace be upon him", post-nominal posthumous Islamic honorific

Other uses

* As (Roman coin), a coin and unit of weight * A.S., , a calendrical system used in the Society for Creative Anachronism * Anti-submarine warfare, A/S * Old name for Ossetians, "As" or "Asi" * Submarine tender, U.S. Navy hull classification symbol AS * Altostratus, a cloud that is sometimes abbreviated as As.