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

Art, entertainment, and media

* A. S. Byatt (born 1936), English critic, novelist, poet and short story writer *

Adult Swim Adult Swim (stylized as dult swimand s is an American adult-oriented television programming block that airs on Cartoon Network which broadcasts during the evening, prime time, and Late-night television, late-night Dayparting, dayparts. T ...

, a programming block on Cartoon Network * , an academic male voice choir of Helsinki, Finland * ''As'' (newspaper), a Spanish sports newspaper * "As" (song), by Stevie Wonder * ''As'', a 1896 novel by Adolf Dygasiński * As the Dog, a sculpture in Warsaw, Poland

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 Associazione Sportiva Roma (''Rome Sport Association''; Italian pronunciation: ) 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 exis ...

, 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 fifth-largest airline in North America when measured by scheduled passengers carried, as of 2024. Alaska, togethe ...

, IATA airline designator * (Belgium), a World War II resistance organization * KK AS Basket, a Serbian basketball club * , a French resistance organization *

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

, an American baseball team referred to as the A's * 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 La Garenne-Colombes () is a Communes of France, commune in the northwestern suburbs ...

, 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, Second Polish Republic, Poland, that operated from 1924 to 1939. History The company was founded in 1924 by Warsaw-based businessman Jan Ł ...

, a Poland-based car manufacturer in 1920s and 1930s **

AS S1 and AS S2 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, ; zh, t=中央研究院) is the national academy of the Taiwan, Republic of China. It is headquartered in Nangang District, Taipei, Nangang, Taipei. Founded in Nanjing, the academy supports research activities in mathemat ...

, the national academy of Taiwan *

AS-level (disambiguation) AS-level may refer to: *Advanced Subsidiary level The A-level (Advanced Level) is a subject-based qualification conferred as part of the General Certificate of Education, as well as a school leaving qualification offered by Education in the U ...

, any of several uses in education *

Associate of Science Associate may refer to: Academics * Associate degree, a two-year educational degree in the United States, and some areas of Canada * Associate professor, an academic rank at a college or university * Technical associate or Senmonshi, a Japa ...

, an American academic degree

Language

As language As is an Austronesian language The Austronesian languages ( ) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese ind ...

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

Assamese language Assamese () or Asamiya ( ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language. It has long served as a ''lingua franca'' in parts of Northeast India."Axomiya is the major langu ...

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 sumerogram AŠ, (sign uses from the ''Epic of Gilgamesh''). File:Amarna letter, EA 362 (p1020178).jpg">250px, Amarna letter 362-(''Reverse''), Rib-Hadda to Pharaoh, with usage of cu ...

, 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, 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 (mean ...

, for Flash and Flex applications *

Autonomous system (Internet) An autonomous system (AS) is a collection of connected Internet protocol address, 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 com ...

, 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. For a typical web application, the application server sits behind the web servers. An application ser ...

, a computer running back-end applications * the

type conversion In computer science, type conversion, type casting, type coercion, and type juggling are different ways of changing an expression from one data type to another. An example would be the conversion of an integer value into a floating point val ...

operator as, used in C# and

Rust Rust is an iron oxide, a usually reddish-brown oxide formed by the reaction of iron and oxygen in the catalytic presence of water or air moisture. Rust consists of hydrous iron(III) oxides (Fe2O3·nH2O) and iron(III) oxide-hydroxide (FeO(OH) ...

Health and medicine

Angelman syndrome Angelman syndrome (AS) is a genetic disorder that affects approximately 1 in 15,000 individuals. AS impairs the function of the nervous system, producing symptoms, such as severe intellectual disability, developmental disability, limited to no ...

, a neuro-genetic disorder *

Ankylosing spondylitis Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a type of arthritis from the disease spectrum of axial spondyloarthritis. It is characterized by long-term inflammation of the joints of the spine, typically where the spine joins the pelvis. With AS, eye and bow ...

, 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 o ...

, 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-gluta ...

, an enzyme *

Asperger syndrome Asperger syndrome (AS), also known as Asperger's syndrome or Asperger's, is a diagnostic label that has historically been used to describe a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and no ...

, an autism spectrum disorder * Auricular splint, a custom-made medical device used as part of ear surgery

Natural sciences

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

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'' *

Arsenic Arsenic is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol As and atomic number 33. It is a metalloid and one of the pnictogens, and therefore shares many properties with its group 15 neighbors phosphorus and antimony. Arsenic is not ...

, symbol As, a chemical element *

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 ...

, labelled ''As'' or ''Aw''

Units of measurement

* Arcsecond,

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

, a unit of angular measurement *

Attosecond An attosecond (abbreviated as as) is a unit of time in the International System of Units (SI) equal to 10−18 or 1⁄1 000 000 000 000 000 000 (one quintillionth) of a second. An attosecond is to a second, as a second is to approximately 31.69 ...

or as, 10⁻¹⁸ second, a subunit of time * Attosiemens or aS, 10⁻¹⁸ siemens, a subunit of electric conductance

Other uses in mathematics, science and technology

* ''

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 T ...

'', 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 (with respect to the probability measure). In other words, the set of outcomes on which the event does not occur ha ...

or a.s., in probability theory

Places

Europe

* , a town in the Czech Republic * , Norway * As, Belgium, in Limburg * , Norway * , Swedish name for the quarter in Helsinki, Finland * As, Ukraine (formerly known as Proletarka), a village in Ukraine

Other places

* (, "New As"), a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran * (, "Old As"), a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran *

American Samoa American Samoa is an Territories of the United States, unincorporated and unorganized territory of the United States located in the Polynesia region of the Pacific Ocean, South Pacific Ocean. Centered on , it is southeast of the island count ...

(ISO 3166 code AS) ** .as, the Internet country code top-level domain for American Samoa *

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

(obsolete NATO and FIPS country codes AS) *

Assam Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . It is the second largest state in Northeast India, nor ...

, a state of India *

United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...

(abbreviated "AS" in Indonesian)

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) The ' (: '), occasionally ''assarius'' (: ''assarii''; ), was a bronze, and later copper, coin used during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire. Republican era coinage The Romans replaced the usage of Greek coins, first by bronze ingots, the ...

, 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 the 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 ar ...

, A/S * Amateurliga Saarland, highest football league in the state of Saarland (defunct) *

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 com ...

, the technical standards developed by Standards Australia * Old name for

Ossetians The Ossetians ( or ; ),Merriam-Webster (2021), s.v"Ossete" also known as Ossetes ( ), Ossets ( ), and Alans ( ), are an Iranian peoples, Iranian ethnic group who are indigenous to Ossetia, a region situated across the northern and southern side ...

, "As" or "Asi" * A US Navy hull classification symbol: Submarine tender (AS)