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

Places

Ans, Belgium Ans (; wa, Anse) is a municipality and city of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. On January 1, 2006, Ans had a total population of 27,322. The total area is 23.35 km² which gives a population density of 1,170 inhabita ...

, a municipality in Belgium *

Ans, Denmark Ans is a town in Silkeborg Municipality, Denmark ) , song = ( en, "King Christian stood by the lofty mast") , song_type = National and royal anthem , image_map = EU-Denmark.svg , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , s ...

, a village in Denmark *

Angus, Scotland Angus ( sco, Angus; gd, Aonghas) is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area. The council area borders Aberdeenshire, Dundee City and Perth and Kinross. Main industries include ...

, 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 branch of the Merseyrail network's Northern Line. History Ainsdale railway station opened in 1848 as an intermediate stat ...

, England, UK (by station code ANS) *

Andahuaylas Airport Andahuaylas Airport is a high-elevation airport serving Andahuaylas Andahuaylas (Quechua Antawaylla, ''anta'' copper, ''waylla'' meadow, "copper meadow") is a Peruvian city. It is the capital of the Andahuaylas Province in the Apurímac Region. ...

, 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 Anna Nicole Smith (born Vickie Lynn Hogan; November 28, 1967 – February 8, 2007) was an American model, actress, and television personality. Smith started her career as a ''Playboy'' magazine centerfold in May 1992 and won the title of 1993 ...

, 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 natu ...

, Pennsylvania, United States *

Astronomical Netherlands Satellite The Astronomical Netherlands Satellite (ANS; also known as Astronomische Nederlandse Satelliet) was a space-based X-ray and ultraviolet telescope. It was launched into Earth orbit on 30 August 1974 at 14:07:39 UTC in a Scout rocket from Vandenber ...

, a Dutch X-ray 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 * Artificial neural system, or

Artificial neural network Artificial neural networks (ANNs), usually simply called neural networks (NNs) or neural nets, are computing systems inspired by the biological neural networks that constitute animal brains. An ANN is based on a collection of connected units ...

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; km, រដ្ឋាភិបាលចំរុះកម្ពុជាប្រជាធិបតេយ្យ, ''Roathaphibal Chamroh Kampuchea Pracheathipatai''), renamed in 1990 to the N ...

Audubon Naturalist Society The Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States (Audubon Naturalist Society) (ANS) is an American non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation and education. Until 1959, the organization was known as the Audubon S ...

, an environmental organization based in the Washington, DC area

Chemistry and biology

Adrenergic nervous system The sympathetic nervous system (SNS) is one of the three divisions of the autonomic nervous system, the others being the parasympathetic nervous system and the enteric nervous system. The enteric nervous system is sometimes considered part of th ...

, adrenaline and noradrenaline neurotransmitters distribution in human body *

8-Anilino-1-naphthalenesulfonic 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 catalyzes the chemical reaction :leucocyanidin + 2-oxoglutarate + O2 \rightleftharpoons cis- and trans-dihydroquercetins + succinate + CO2 + 2 H2O The 3 substrates of this enzyme are ...

, 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, part of the peripheral nervous system in the body

Technology

* , an unofficial file extension for

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

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 Communications, MCI) to run the network infrastructure for the soon to be upgraded N ...

, 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 non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organ ...

* ''ans'', a variable in

MATLAB MATLAB (an abbreviation of "MATrix LABoratory") is a proprietary multi-paradigm programming language and numeric computing environment developed by MathWorks. MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementa ...

, created automatically when no output argument is specified, 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 refers to the server component of the Domain Name System (DNS), one of the two principal namespaces of the Internet. The most important function of DNS servers is the translation (resolution) of human-memorable domain names (example. ...

, a DNS server * 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 o ...

(ANSP)

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 Ru ...

, a Russian photoelectric musical instrument

Other uses

Al Ansar FC Al Ansar Football Club ( ar, نادي الأنصار الرياضي, lit=The Supporters Sporting 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 it ...

, a Lebanese association football club *

Amman National School The Amman National School (ANS) is a private educational institution located in Amman, Jordan. The head principal is Dara Taher. History It was established in 1985 and included only junior Grades. The school started with grades 1–3 in a rente ...

, in Amman, Jordan *

Ansvarlig selskap An (; en, liable company) 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 ...

, a Norwegian personal responsibility company model * ''

Algemeen Nijmeegs Studentenblad The ''Algemeen Nijmeegs Studentenblad'' is an independent student magazine for the Radboud University Nijmegen. Founded in 1985 by members of the local student union A students' union, also known by many other names, is a student organization p ...

'', a Dutch student magazine