Nas Nas (born 1973) is the stage name of American rapper Nasir Jones. Nas, NaS, or NAS may also refer to: Aviation * Nasair, a low-cost airline carrier and subsidiary based in Eritrea * National Air Services, an airline in Saudi Arabia ** Nas Air (S ...

(born 1973) is the stage name of American rapper Nasir Jones. Nas, NaS, or NAS may also refer to:

Aviation

Nasair Nasair, officially known as Nasair Eritrea, was an airline based in Asmara, Eritrea. It operated scheduled flights to domestic destinations in Eritrea, as well as limited scheduled services to the Middle East and Eastern Africa. As of May 2014 ...

, a low-cost airline carrier and subsidiary based in Eritrea *

National Air Services Flynas (stylized flynas; ), formerly Nas Air, is a private Saudi low-cost airline "joint-stock company". It is the first low-cost airline in Saudi Arabia. The company's headquarters are located in Riyadh. It operates more than 1,500 flights ...

, an airline in Saudi Arabia **

Nas Air (Saudi Arabia) Flynas (stylized flynas; ), formerly Nas Air, is a Privately held company, private Saudi Arabia, Saudi Low cost carrier, low-cost airline "joint-stock company". It is the first low-cost airline in Saudi Arabia. The company's headquarters are loca ...

, a low-cost airline carrier and subsidiary of National Air Services * National Aerospace Standards, industry standards for aviation in the United States *

National Airports System In Canada, the National Airports System (, NAS) is a group of major airports defined in the National Airports Policy published in 1994. It was intended to include all airports with an annual traffic of 200,000 passengers or more, as well as air ...

, an organization system of larger or important airports in Canada *

National Airspace System The National Airspace System (NAS) is the airspace, navigation facilities and Airport, airports of the United States along with their associated information, services, rules, regulations, policies, procedures, personnel and equipment. It includes c ...

, an aviation control system in the United States * Naval air squadron, an aircraft-focused unit associated with a navy *

Naval air station A Naval Air Station (NAS) is a military air base, and consists of a permanent land-based operations locations for the military aviation division of the relevant branch of a navy (Naval aviation). These bases are typically populated by squadron ...

, a military air base associated with a navy *

Norwegian Air Shuttle Norwegian Air Shuttle Aksjeselskap, ASA, trading as Norwegian, is a Norway, Norwegian Low-cost carrier, low-cost airline and Scandinavia's second-largest airline, behind Scandinavian Airlines. It is the fourth largest low-cost carrier in Europe ...

, an airline in Norway *

National Aviation Services National Aviation Services (NAS) is an aviation services provider headquartered in Kuwait City, Kuwait. The company currently operates at 55 airports through emerging markets countries across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Background NAS ...

, an aviation services provider headquartered in Kuwait

Commerce

Nihon Ad Systems , NAS for short, is a Japanese anime production and character merchandising company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the advertising agency Asatsu-DK. The "Ad" in its title is an abbreviation for "Animation Development". Along with Sony Pictures ...

, a Japanese anime company * No age statement, for a Scotch whisky

Organizations

* Nationaal Arbeids-Secretariaat, a trade union federation in the Netherlands 1893-1940 *

National Academy of Songwriters National Academy of Songwriters was a music industry association that provided a support network for songwriters, and awarded honors in various categories. Originally founded by Helen King as Songwriters Resources and Services, she saw a need to pro ...

National Academy of Sports (Philippines) The National Academy of Sports (NAS) is a government-run sports academy managed by the Philippine government which has its main campus at the New Clark City Sports Complex in Capas, Tarlac. History The National Academy of Sports system was ...

HSE National Ambulance Service The National Ambulance Service () is the statutory public ambulance service in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The service is operated by the National Hospitals Office of the Health Service Executive, the Irish national healthcare authority. ...

of Ireland * National Apprenticeship Service, UK *

National Archives of Scotland The National Archives of Scotland (NAS) is the previous name of the National Records of Scotland (NRS), and are the national archives of Scotland, based in Edinburgh. The NAS claims to have one of the most varied collection of archives in Europ ...

, Edinburgh *

National Association of Scholars The National Association of Scholars (NAS) is an American 501(c)(3) non-profit politically conservative education advocacy organization. It advocates against multiculturalism, diversity policies, and against courses focused on race and gender i ...

, US * Former National Association of Schoolmasters, UK *

National Association of Seadogs The National Association of Seadogs, popularly known as the Pyrates Confraternity, is a confraternity organization in Nigeria that is nominally University-based. The group was founded by Professor Wole Soyinka and six students in 1952 to support ...

, a Nigerian confraternity *

National Audubon Society The National Audubon Society (Audubon; ) is an American non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation of birds and their habitats. Located in the United States and incorporated in 1905, Audubon is one of the oldest of such orga ...

, US conservancy organization *

National Autistic Society The National Autistic Society is a charity for autistic people and their families in the United Kingdom. Since 1962, the National Autistic Society has been providing support, guidance and advice, as well as campaigning for improved rights, ser ...

, UK *

National Salvation Front (South Sudan) The National Salvation Front (NAS) is a South Sudanese militant group led by Thomas Cirillo which has been fighting against the government of South Sudan since March 2017. Background The group is the largest still fighting after the end of t ...

, a militant group *

Nautical Archaeology Society The Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) is a charity registered in England and WalesCharity Commission
...

, UK *

Nord Anglia International School Dubai Nord Anglia Education, commonly referred to as Nord Anglia, is an international private school operator headquartered in the United Kingdom. Nord Anglia has more than 80 private day and boarding schools located in 30 countries across the Ameri ...

People

Lil Nas X Montero Lamar Hill (born April 9, 1999), better known by his stage name Lil Nas X ( ), is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He rose to prominence with the release of his 2018 country rap single "Old Town Road," the longest-running nu ...

(born 1999), American rapper * Nas Majeed, contestant on the sixth series of ''Love Island'' *

Digital Nas Nasir Pemberton (born December 5, 1998), known professionally as Digital Nas or DN, is an American hip-hop producer from Atlanta, Georgia. He first gained recognition for his production work for Lil Yachty, and later for his work with Kanye West ...

(born 1998), American record producer *

Mehmet Nas Mehmet Nas (born 20 November 1979) is a former Turkish professional footballer, who played last as a midfielder for Sivas Belediyespor. Club career Nas began his professional career in 1998. He spent six years with Samsunspor before he moved on ...

(born 1979), Turkish footballer *

Nesrin Nas Nesrin Nas (born 1958) is a Turkish female academic in economics, politician and the former leader of the Motherland Party (Anavatan Partisi, ANAP). She was born in the Central Anatolian town of Bünyan in Kayseri Province. Her father's name ...

(born 1958), Turkish academic *

Nuseir Yassin Nuseir Yassin (; ; born ) is an Israeli-Palestinian -Kittian vlogger, known as Nas Daily, from the name used on his YouTube, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram pages for his over 1,000 daily, one-minute-long videos. Early life and education Yas ...

(born 1992), Arab-Israeli Vlogger, creator of ''Nas Daily''

Places

Lynden Pindling International Airport Lynden Pindling International Airport , formerly known as Nassau International Airport, is the largest airport in the Bahamas and the largest international gateway into the country. It is a hub for Bahamasair, Western Air, and Pineapple Air. ...

(IATA airport code NAS), near Nassau, Bahamas * Nas (Ikaria), a village in the Greek island of Icaria

Religion

al-Nas Al-Nas or Mankind () is the 114th and last chapter (''sūrah'') of the Qur'an. It is a short six- verse invocation. The chapter takes its name from the word "people" or "mankind" (''al-nas''), which recurs throughout the chapter. This and the ...

, Islamic scriptural chapter in the Quran *

New American Standard Bible The New American Standard Bible (NASB, also simply NAS for "New American Standard") is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English. Published by the Lockman Foundation, the complete NASB was released in 1971. New revisions were publis ...

, a 1971 English translation of the Bible *

Nordic Asa-Community The Nordic Asa-Community (; abbreviated NAS) is a Germanic heathen religious organisation founded in Sweden in 2014. Since 2016, it has been the largest heathen organisation in the country. History The Nordic Asa-Community (NAS) was founded in ...

(Swedish: ''Nordiska Asa-samfundet''), a neopagan organisation in Sweden

Science and technology

* National Academy of Sciences (disambiguation)

Biology, chemistry and medicine

* ''N''-Acetylserotonin, also known as normelatonin, a neurotransmitter * NaS battery, a

sodium–sulfur battery A sodium–sulfur (NaS) battery is a type of molten-salt battery, molten-salt battery (electricity), battery that uses liquid sodium and liquid sulfur electrodes. This type of battery has a similar energy density to lithium-ion battery, lithium-i ...

Neonatal abstinence syndrome Neonatal withdrawal or neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) or neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS) is a drug withdrawal syndrome of infants, caused by the cessation of the administration of drugs which may or may not be licit. Tolerance, ...

, a drug withdrawal syndrome found in infants that have been administered drugs *

Normative Aging Study The Normative Aging Study (NAS) is a longitudinal study which studies the effects of aging on various health issues. The ongoing study was established in 1963 by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. The initial sample was 2,280 men now ...

, a long-term study of the health effects of aging *

Nucleophilic acyl substitution In chemistry, an acyl group is a moiety derived by the removal of one or more hydroxyl groups from an oxoacid, including inorganic acids. It contains a double-bonded oxygen atom and an organyl group () or hydrogen in the case of formyl group ( ...

, a reaction in organic chemistry *

Nucleophilic aromatic substitution A nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SNAr) is a substitution reaction in organic chemistry in which the nucleophile displaces a good leaving group, such as a halide, on an aromatic ring. Aromatic rings are usually nucleophilic, but some aromatic c ...

, a reaction in organic chemistry

Computing and networks

NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division The NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division is located at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Federal Airfield, Moffett Field in the heart of Silicon Valley in Mountain View, California. It has been the major supercomputing and modeling and si ...

* NetWare Access Server, a Novell product *

Network access server A network access server (NAS) is a group of components that provides remote users with a point of access to a network. Overview A NAS concentrates dial-in and dial-out user communications. An access server may have a mixture of analog and digita ...

Network-attached storage Network-attached storage (NAS) is a file-level computer data storage server connected to a computer network providing data access to a Heterogeneous computing, heterogeneous group of clients. In this context, the term "NAS" can refer to both th ...

Neural architecture search Neural architecture search (NAS) is a technique for automating the design of artificial neural networks (ANN), a widely used model in the field of machine learning. NAS has been used to design networks that are on par with or outperform hand-desig ...

* Non-access stratum, in wireless networking

Other uses

* National account system, for measuring the economic activity of a nation * Nerve attenuation syndrome, a fictional disease in the movie ''

Johnny Mnemonic "Johnny Mnemonic" is a Cyberpunk short story by American-Canadian writer William Gibson. It first appeared in '' Omni'' magazine in May 1981, and was subsequently included in ''Burning Chrome'', a 1986 collection of Gibson's short fiction. It tak ...