Ans or ANS or ''variation'', may refer to:

Places

Ans, Belgium Ans (; ) is a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality and City status in Belgium, city of Wallonia located in the Liège Province, province of Liège, Belgium. On January 1, 2006, Ans had a total population of 27,322. The total area is 23.35&nb ...

, a municipality in Belgium *

Ans, Denmark Ans is a town in Silkeborg Municipality, Central Denmark Region in Denmark. It is situated at the southern shore of Tange Sø (''Tange Lake''), 8 km southeast of Rødkærsbro, 10 km southwest of Bjerringbro, 17 km north of Silkeborg Silkeborg ...

, a village in Denmark *

Angus, Scotland Angus (; ) is one of the 32 Local government in Scotland, local government council areas of Scotland, and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area. The council area borders Aberdeenshire, Dundee City (council area), Dundee City and Per ...

, UK; a council area by its Chapman code *

Ainsdale railway station Ainsdale railway station serves the village of Ainsdale near Southport, England. The station is located on the Southport railway station, Southport branch of the Merseyrail network's Northern Line (Merseyrail), Northern Line. History Ainsdale ...

, England, UK (by station code ANS) *

Andahuaylas Airport Andahuaylas Airport is a high-elevation airport serving the city of Andahuaylas, in Peru. It is an important airport in the Apurímac Region as being the only one capable of receiving commercial flights. It is operated by the civil government. ...

, Peru (by IATA airport code ANS)

People

Ans (given name) Ans is a Dutch feminine given name, a short form of either Anna or Johanna. People with the name include: * Ans van den Berg (1873–1942), Dutch painter * Ans Bouwmeester (fl. 1980s), Dutch Paralympic athlete * Ans Dekker (born 1955), Dutch artist ...

, a Dutch feminine given name *

Anna Nicole Smith Vickie Lynn Marshall (née Hogan; November 28, 1967 – February 8, 2007), known professionally as Anna Nicole Smith, was an American model, actress, and television personality. Smith started her career as a ''Playboy'' magazine centerfold in M ...

, American model and actress

Organizations

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, formerly the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, is the oldest natural science research institution and museum in the Americas. It was founded in 1812, by many of the leading natur ...

, Pennsylvania, United States * Astronomical Netherlands Satellite, a Dutch satellite *

American Name Society The American Name Society (ANS) is a non-profit organization founded in 1951 to promote onomastics, the study of names and naming practices, both in the United States and abroad. The organization investigates cultural insights, settlement history, ...

American Nuclear Society The American Nuclear Society (ANS) is an international, not-for-profit organization of scientists, engineers, and industry professionals that promote the field of nuclear engineering and related disciplines. ANS is composed of three communities: ...

American Numismatic Society The American Numismatic Society (ANS) is a New York City-based organization dedicated to the study of coins, money, medals, tokens, and related objects. Founded in 1858, it is the only American museum devoted exclusively to their preservation ...

, formerly the American Numismatic and Archaeological Society *

ANS Group of Companies The ANS Group of Companies is a news and broadcasting company in Azerbaijan. It was founded by three young Azeri journalists, brothers Vahid and Seyfulla Mustafayev in 1990. The Company name, ANS, derives from the first letters of ''Azerbaijan Ne ...

, a news organization in Azerbaijan * , a Cambodian resistance group; see

Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea The Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (CGDK; , ''Roathaphibal Chamroh Kampuchea Pracheathipatai''), renamed in 1990 to the National Government of Cambodia (NGC; , ''Roathaphibal Cheat Ney Kampuchea''), was a coalition government in e ...

Audubon Naturalist Society Nature Forward (formerly Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States, or Audubon Naturalist Society) is an American non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation and education. The organization holds two properties ...

, an American environmental organization

Chemistry and biology

Adrenergic nervous system Adrenergic means "working on adrenaline (epinephrine) or noradrenaline (norepinephrine)" (or on their receptors). When not further qualified, it is usually used in the sense of enhancing or mimicking the effects of epinephrine and norepinephrine i ...

, adrenaline and noradrenaline neurotransmitters distribution in human body *

8-Anilinonaphthalene-1-sulfonic acid 8-Anilinonaphthalene-1-sulfonic acid (ANS), also called 1-anilino-8-naphthalenesulfonate, is an organic compound containing both a sulfonic acid and an amine group. This compound is used as a fluorescent molecular probe. For example, ANS can be u ...

, a fluorescent chemical compound used as a molecular probe *

Anthocyanidin synthase In enzymology, a leucocyanidin oxygenase () is an enzyme that catalysis, catalyzes the chemical reaction :leucocyanidin + 2-oxoglutarate + O2 \rightleftharpoons cis- and trans-dihydroquercetins + succinate + CO2 + 2 H2O The 3 substrate (biochemis ...

, an enzyme in the leucocyanidin biosynthesis pathway *

Approximate number system The approximate number system (ANS) is a cognitive system that supports the estimation of the magnitude of a group without relying on language or symbols. The ANS is credited with the non-symbolic representation of all numbers greater than four, ...

, a hypothesized physiological basis for the sense of number *

Autonomic nervous system The autonomic nervous system (ANS), sometimes called the visceral nervous system and formerly the vegetative nervous system, is a division of the nervous system that operates viscera, internal organs, smooth muscle and glands. The autonomic nervo ...

, part of the peripheral nervous system in the body * L-Aspartate-nitro-succinate pathway for production of nitrite

Technology

* , an unofficial file extension for ANSI art *

Advanced Network and Services Advanced Network and Services, Inc. (ANS) was a United States non-profit organization formed in September, 1990 by the NSFNET partners (Merit Network, IBM, and MCI) to run the network infrastructure for the soon to be upgraded NSFNET Backbone Ser ...

, a non-profit network service provider in the 1990s * American National Standards, defined by the

American National Standards Institute The American National Standards Institute (ANSI ) is a private nonprofit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organiz ...

* ''ans'', a variable in

calculators An electronic calculator is typically a portable electronic device used to perform calculations, ranging from basic arithmetic to complex mathematics. The first solid-state electronic calculator was created in the early 1960s. Pocket-siz ...

referring to the most recent answer * ANS carriage control characters (or ASA control characters), for computer line printers *

Asymmetric numeral systems Asymmetric numeral systems (ANS)J. Duda, K. Tahboub, N. J. Gadil, E. J. Delp''The use of asymmetric numeral systems as an accurate replacement for Huffman coding'' Picture Coding Symposium, 2015.J. Duda''Asymmetric numeral systems: entropy coding ...

, coding in data compression *

Authoritative name server A name server is a computer application that implements a network service for providing responses to queries against a directory service. It translates an often humanly meaningful, text-based identifier to a system-internal, often numeric identi ...

, a DNS server * Artificial neural system, or

Artificial neural network In machine learning, a neural network (also artificial neural network or neural net, abbreviated ANN or NN) is a computational model inspired by the structure and functions of biological neural networks. A neural network consists of connected ...

* Air Navigation Services, as delivered by an

Air Navigation Service Provider An air navigation service provider (ANSP) is a public or a private legal entity providing Air Navigation Services. It manages air traffic on behalf of a company, region or country. Depending on the specific mandate, an ANSP provides one or more ...

(ANSP) *

Apple Network Server The Apple Network Server (ANS) was a line of PowerPC-based server computers designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from February 1996 to April 1997. It was codenamed "Shiner" and originally consisted of two models, the Network ...

, a late 1990s AIX based server machine from Apple Inc.

Music

* ''ANS'' (album), a box set from the British band Coil *

ANS synthesizer The ANS synthesizer is a photoelectronic musical instrument created by Russian engineer Evgeny Murzin from 1937 to 1957. The technological basis of his invention was the method of graphical sound recording used in cinematography (developed in R ...

, a Russian photoelectric musical instrument

Other uses

Al Ansar FC Al Ansar Football Club () is a football club based in Tariq El Jdideh, a district in Beirut, Lebanon, that competes in the . Formed in 1951, the club did not win its first Lebanese Premier League until 1988. They went on to set a world record ...

, a Lebanese association football club * Amman National School, in Amman, Jordan *

Ansvarlig selskap An (; ) is a Norwegian legal form, mainly used in small and medium-sized enterprises, in which the company's individual owners are held personally liable for any outstanding debts acquired by the company. It is similar to a general partners ...

, a Norwegian personal responsibility company model * '' Algemeen Nijmeegs Studentenblad'', a Dutch student magazine * '' Akademia Nauk Stosowanych'', a vocational university in Nowy Targ, Poland