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'' and often abbreviated as s'') is an American adult-oriented night-time cable television channel that shares channel space with the basic cable network Cartoon Network and is programmed by its in-house ...

, 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 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 nu ...

, 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 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 t ...

, an American baseball team referred to as the A's * Australian Standards, 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, 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, and ...

, 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, the national academy of Taiwan * AS-level (disambiguation), any of 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 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 languag ...

of India * As (cuneiform), a written character * Aš (cuneiform), a written character

Mathematics, science and technology

Computing

* as (Unix), 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 (meani ...

, 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 ro ...

, a collection of IP networks * Application server, a computer running back-end applications

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 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 typica ...

, 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 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 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, bu ...

, 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 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 ...

, 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 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 Internation ...

(ISO 3166 code AS) **

, the Internet country code top-level domain for American Samoa * Australia (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 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 typi ...

, 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 th ...

, "As" or "Asi" * Submarine tender, U.S. Navy hull classification symbol AS * Altostratus, a cloud that is sometimes abbreviated as As.