AS facts for kids
AS or as may refer to:
Science and technology
- A. S. (car), a small French car built in the 1920s
- ActionScript, a programming language developed by Macromedia and Adobe
- Aggregate supply, the total supply of goods, in economics
- Almost surely or a.s., in probability theory, an event with probability 1
- Associate of Science, an American associate degree
- Arsenic, chemical symbol "As"
- Australian Standard, usually followed by the standard number
- Autonomous system (Internet), a collection of IP networks
- Arcsecond, 1⁄60 arcminute, a unit of angular measurement
- Attosecond or as, one trillionth (long scale) (10−18) or one quintillionth (short scale) (10−18) of a second, a unit of time
- Attosiemens or aS, one trillionth (long scale) (10−18) or one quintillionth (short scale) (10−18) of a siemens, a unit of electric conductance
Medicine
- Angelman syndrome, a neuro-genetic disorder
- Ankylosing spondylitis, arthritis of the spine and joints near to the spine
- Aortic stenosis, a type of heart disease
- Asperger syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder
- Autism spectrum
Places
- .as, the Internet country code top-level domain for American Samoa
- As, Belgium, a municipality in Belgium
- Ås, a municipality in Akershus county, Norway
- Ås, Sør-Trøndelag, a village in Tydal municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway
- Ås, Swedish name for Harju quarter in Helsinki, Finland
- Aš, a town in the Czech Republic
People
- Æsir are called "ás", "áss", or "ǫ́ss" in Norse.
- Ossetians were called As or Asi by the Georgians and Russians in the past
Organizations
- Aksjeselskap or A/S, a type of Norwegian stock-based company
- Aktieselskab or A/S, a type of Danish stock-based company
- Aktsiaselts, a type of Estonian stock-based company
- Abilene and Southern Railway
- Akademiska Sångföreningen or The Academic Male Voice Choir of Helsinki, a Finnish choir
- Alaska Airlines, IATA airline designator
- A.S. Roma, Italian football club based in Rome
- Australian Standards
- Diario AS, a Spanish sports newspaper
Other uses
- As (Roman coin), a coin and weight unit
- "As" (song), a song by Stevie Wonder
- Anglo-Saxon, ancestor of modern English language
- Anti-submarine warfare
- Assamese language, ISO 639 alpha-2 language code
- AS Level, a qualification in the United Kingdom; half an A Level
- Anabolic Steroids, AS is an abbreviation often used on online bodybuilding forums
Related pages
- All pages beginning with AS
See also
In Spanish: As para niños
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