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 swim Dult is a village in Batala in Gurdaspur district of Punjab State, India. It is located from sub district headquarter, from district headquarter and from Sri Hargobindpur. The village is administrated by Sarpanch an elected representati ...

and 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 ' (''Rome Sport Association''), commonly referred to as Roma (), is a professional football club based in Rome, Italy. Founded by a merger in 1927, Roma has participated in the top tier of Italian football for all of its existence, except for ...

, an Italian football club *

Alaska Airlines Alaska Airlines is a major American airline headquartered in SeaTac, Washington, within the Seattle metropolitan area. It is the sixth largest airline in North America when measured by fleet size, scheduled passengers carried, and the numb ...

, IATA airline designator * (Belgium), a World War II resistance organization * ''

Diario AS ''Diario AS'' () is a Spanish daily sports newspaper that concentrates particularly on football. Profile ''Diario AS'' is part of PRISA which also owns '' El País'' and ''Cinco Días''. The paper particularly covers news of the Community of M ...

'', a Spanish daily sports newspaper that concentrates particularly on football - branded as AS * KK AS Basket, 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., 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 Towarzystwo Budowy Samochodów AS was an automobile and mechanical parts manufacturer based in Warsaw, that operated from 1924 to 1939 in Second Polish Republic. History The company was founded in 1924 by Warsaw-based businessman Jan Łaski, an ...

, 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 Assamese (), also Asamiya ( ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the north-east Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language, and it serves as a ''lingua franca'' of the wider region. The easternmost Indo-Iranian 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 ActionScript is an object-oriented programming language originally developed by Macromedia Inc. (later acquired by Adobe). It is influenced by HyperTalk, the scripting language for HyperCard. It is now an implementation of ECMAScript (meaning i ...

, for Flash and Flex applications *

Autonomous system (Internet) An autonomous system (AS) is a collection of connected Internet Protocol (IP) routing prefixes under the control of one or more network operators on behalf of a single administrative entity or domain, that presents a common and clearly defined rou ...

, 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 Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a type of arthritis characterized by long-term inflammation of the joints of the spine typically where the spine joins the pelvis. Occasionally areas affected may include other joints such as the shoulders or hip ...

, a type of arthritis *

Aortic stenosis Aortic stenosis (AS or AoS) is the narrowing of the exit of the left ventricle of the heart (where the aorta begins), such that problems result. It may occur at the aortic valve as well as above and below this level. It typically gets worse ove ...

, a valvular heart disease *

Asparagine synthase (glutamine-hydrolysing) Asparagine synthase (glutamine-hydrolysing) (, ''asparagine synthetase (glutamine-hydrolysing)'', ''glutamine-dependent asparagine synthetase'', ''asparagine synthetase B'', ''AS'', ''AS-B'') is an enzyme with systematic name ''L-aspartate:L-glutam ...

, an enzyme *

Asperger syndrome Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger's, is a former neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in Interpersonal relationship, social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted and re ...

, an autism spectrum disorder *

Auricular splint An auricular splint (AS) or ear splint is a custom-made medical device that is used to maintain auricular projection and dimensions following second stage auricular reconstruction. The AS is made from ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA), which is typical ...

, a custom-made medical device used as part of ear surgery

Units of measurement

* Arcsecond,

arcminute A minute of arc, arcminute (arcmin), arc minute, or minute arc, denoted by the symbol , is a unit of angular measurement equal to of one degree. Since one degree is of a turn (or complete rotation), one minute of arc is of a turn. The na ...

, 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 The siemens (symbol: S) is the unit of electric conductance, electric susceptance, and electric admittance in the International System of Units (SI). Conductance, susceptance, and admittance are the reciprocals of resistance, reactance, and ...

or aS, 10⁻¹⁸ siemens, a subunit of electric conductance

Other uses in mathematics and science

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Abramowitz and Stegun ''Abramowitz and Stegun'' (''AS'') is the informal name of a 1964 mathematical reference work edited by Milton Abramowitz and Irene Stegun of the United States National Bureau of Standards (NBS), now the ''National Institute of Standards and Te ...

'', a mathematical reference work *

Aggregate supply In economics, aggregate supply (AS) or domestic final supply (DFS) is the total supply of goods and services that firms in a national economy plan on selling during a specific time period. It is the total amount of goods and services that firms ...

, in economics, the total supply of goods *

Almost surely In probability theory, an event is said to happen almost surely (sometimes abbreviated as a.s.) if it happens with probability 1 (or Lebesgue measure 1). In other words, the set of possible exceptions may be non-empty, but it has probability 0. ...

or a.s., in probability theory *

Arsenic Arsenic is a chemical element with the symbol As and atomic number 33. Arsenic occurs in many minerals, usually in combination with sulfur and metals, but also as a pure elemental crystal. Arsenic is a metalloid. It has various allotropes, but ...

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

Tropical savanna climate Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories ''Aw'' (for a dry winter) and ''As'' (for a dry summer). The driest month has less than of p ...

, 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 munic ...

, 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 American Samoa ( sm, Amerika Sāmoa, ; also ' or ') is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the island country of Samoa. Its location is centered on . It is east of the International ...

(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 Islam uses a number of conventionally complimentary phrases praising Allah (e.g., ), or wishing good things upon Muhammad or other prophets (e.g., ). These phrases are encompassed by a number of terms: Prayers upon Muhammad may be referred to s ...

", post-nominal posthumous Islamic honorific

Other uses

As (Roman coin) The ' (plural '), occasionally ''assarius'' (plural ''assarii'', rendered into Greek as , ''assárion'') was a bronze, and later copper, coin used during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire. Republican era coinage The Romans replaced the usag ...

, a coin and unit of weight * A.S., , a calendrical system used in the

Society for Creative Anachronism The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is an international living history group with the aim of studying and recreating mainly Medieval European cultures and their histories before the 17th century. A quip often used within the SCA describes ...

Anti-submarine warfare Anti-submarine warfare (ASW, or in older form A/S) is a branch of underwater warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, submarines, or other platforms, to find, track, and deter, damage, or destroy enemy submarines. Such operations are t ...

, A/S * Old name for

Ossetians The Ossetians or Ossetes (, ; os, ир, ирæттæ / дигорӕ, дигорӕнттӕ, translit= ir, irættæ / digoræ, digorænttæ, label=Ossetic) are an Iranian ethnic group who are indigenous to Ossetia, a region situated across the no ...

, "As" or "Asi" *

Submarine tender A submarine tender is a type of depot ship that supplies and supports submarines. Development Submarines are small compared to most oceangoing vessels, and generally do not have the ability to carry large amounts of food, fuel, torpedoes, and ...

, U.S. Navy hull classification symbol AS *

Altostratus Altostratus is a middle-altitude cloud genus made up of water droplets, ice crystals, or a mixture of the two. Altostratus clouds are formed when large masses of warm, moist air rise, causing water vapor to condense. Altostratus clouds are usual ...

, a cloud that is sometimes abbreviated as As.