TAS, Tas, tas, or TAs may refer to:

Places

Tasmania Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The sta ...

, Australia, an abbreviation * Tas-Anna, a rural locality in Neryuktyayinsky 1-y Rural Okrug of Olyokminsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia *

Tas-Kystabyt The Tas-Kystabyt (, ) is a mountain range in the Sakha Republic and Magadan Oblast, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. It is also known as "хребе́т Са́рычева" —Sarychev Range, in honor of 19th century Russian cartographer Adm ...

, a mountain range in Far East Russia *

Tas-Silġ Tas-Silġ is a rounded hilltop on the south-east coast of the island of Malta, overlooking Marsaxlokk Bay, and close to the town of Żejtun. Tas-Silġ is a major multi-period sanctuary site with archaeological remains covering 4,000 years, from ...

, a rounded hilltop overlooking Marsaxlokk Bay, Malta, close to the city of Żejtun *

River Tas The River Tas is a river which flows northwards through South Norfolk in England - towards Norwich. The area is named the Tas Valley after the river. The name of the river is back-formed from the name of village of Tasburgh.E. Ekwall, 1928, ''E ...

, in Norfolk, England

People

Given name

Tas Baitieri Bortolo "Tas" Baitieri (born 14 July 1957) is an Australian rugby league administrator, former professional player in the 1970s and 1980s, and coach in the 1980s and 1990s. He played for the Penrith Panthers and the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldo ...

(born 1958), Australian former rugby league footballer and coach * Tas Bull (1932–2003), Australian trade union leader * Tas Pappas (born 1975), Australian skateboarder *Tas, father of Lél (Lehel), one of the

Seven chieftains of the Magyars The Seven chieftains of the Magyars (or Hungarians) were the leaders of the seven tribes of the Hungarians at the time of their arrival in the Carpathian Basin in AD 895. Constantine VII, emperor of the Byzantine Empire names the seven tribes ...

Surname

* Adam Tas (1668–1722), South African community leader * Adam Tas (singer) (born 1981), South African singer and songwriter in Afrikaans *

András Róna-Tas András Róna-Tas (born 30 December 1931) is a Hungarian historian and linguist. Biography He was born in 1931 in Budapest. Róna-Tas studied under such preeminent professors as Gyula Ortutay and Lajos Ligeti, and received a degree in folklore ...

(born 1931), Hungarian historian and linguist * Henk Tas (born 1948), Dutch visual artist and photographer *

Marcelo Tas Marcelo Tristão Athayde de Souza (born November 10, 1959), better known as Marcelo Tas, is a Brazilian director, writer, actor and television presenter. Host of PROVOCA and commentator for Jornal da Cultura of TV Cultura. He works as a speaker and ...

(born 1959), Brazilian director, writer, actor and television host * Marja van der Tas (born 1958), Dutch politician * Rudi Tas (born 1957), Flemish Belgian composer, conductor and organist

Nicknames

*Nickname of Tasmiyah Janeesha Whitehead, arrested for the murder of Nikki Whitehead

Arts and entertainment

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The Absolute Sound ''The Absolute Sound'' (TAS) is an American audiophile magazine which reviews high-end audio equipment, along with recordings and comments on various music-related subjects. History ''The Absolute Sound'' was founded in 1973 by Harry Pearson ...

'', an American audiophile magazine *'' Star Trek: The Animated Series'' * ''Tas'' (series), science fiction novels by E.C. Eliott *

Tasslehoff Burrfoot Tasslehoff Burrfoot (often called Tas) is a fictional character of the Kender (fantasy), kender race from the Dragonlance series of novels, written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. He was born in Kendermore (Krynn), Kendermore. His parents ar ...

, a character in Dragonlance novels

Education

Taipei American School Taipei American School (TAS; ; abbreviation TAS) is a non-profit private school, private international school with an American-based curriculum located in Tianmu, Shilin District, Tianmu, Shilin District, Taipei, Taiwan. TAS serves students from ...

, Taipei, Taiwan (Republic of China) *

Tehran American School The Tehran American School (TAS)1970s campus location was an American international school in Tehran, Iran. It was founded in 1954, and it held its final classes in 1978.Egherman, Tori.Notebook , The Last Days of the Tehran American School. ''PBS ...

, Tehran, Iran *

The Armidale School The Armidale School (abbreviated as TAS) is an independent Anglican co-educational early learning, primary and secondary day and boarding school, located in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. Administration of the schools is formalised as a ...

, New South Wales, Australia *

The Associated Schools The Associated Schools (TAS) is an incorporated body involving fourteen co-educational independent Queensland secondary schools in a variety of sporting and cultural activities established in 1956 following the disbanded Metropolitan Secondary S ...

, a group of schools in Queensland, Australia * Trinity Anglican School, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Food

Tas kebab Tas kebab (Persian: تاس کباب, Turkish: tas kebap or tas kebabı) is Middle Eastern meat stew. It is also used in the Balkans, with a different cooking method. It may be made with veal or mutton. See also * List of stews This is a list of ...

, a Turkish meat stew

Military

44M Tas The 44M Tas was a Hungarian heavy tank/ medium tank design of World War II. It was developed to combat heavily armored Soviet tanks encountered on the Eastern Front and to replace the older Turán I and Turán II tanks which Hungary operate ...

, a WW2 medium/heavy tank from Hungary *

Tas-Samra Battery Tas-Samra Battery () was an artillery battery in Ħamrun, Malta, built by Maltese insurgents during the Siege of Malta (1798–1800), French blockade of 1798–1800. It was part of Fortifications of Malta#French occupation (1798–1800), a chain o ...

, a 1798–1800 artillery battery in Ħamrun, Malta *''TAs'', the Romanian designation of the German

Sturmgeschütz III The ''Sturmgeschütz'' III (StuG III) was an assault gun produced by Nazi Germany during World War II. It was the most-produced German Continuous track, fully tracked armoured fighting vehicle, and second-most produced German armored combat ve ...

assault gun

Science and technology

Computing and telecommunications

Thermal-assisted switching Crocus Technology, founded in 2004, was a venture-capital-backed semiconductor startup company developing and manufacturing integrated magnetic field sensors for a variety of applications: Automotive, consumer goods, industrial and medical IoT. ...

, an approach to computer memory *

Tool-assisted speedrun A tool-assisted speedrun or tool-assisted superplay (TAS; ) is generally defined as a speedrun or playthrough composed of precise inputs recorded with tools such as video game emulators. Tool-assisted speedruns are generally created with the go ...

, in video games * Telephony application server, in telecommunications *

Test-and-set In computer science, the test-and-set instruction is an instruction used to write (set) 1 to a memory location and return its old value as a single atomic (i.e., non- interruptible) operation. The caller can then "test" the result to see if the ...

, an atomic instruction in synchronization

Material science

*Transient-absorption spectroscopy, a form of

time-resolved spectroscopy In physics and physical chemistry, time-resolved spectroscopy is the study of dynamic processes in materials or chemical compounds by means of spectroscopic techniques. Most often, processes are studied after the illumination of a material occurs, ...

TAS classification TAS stands for Total Alkali Silica. The TAS classification can be used to assign names to many common types of volcanic rocks based upon the relationships between the combined alkali and silica contents. These chemical parameters are useful because ...

, for types of volcanic rocks

Medicine

* Transesophageal atrial stimulation *

TAS-102 Trifluridine/tipiracil (FTD–TPI), sold under the brand name Lonsurf, is a fixed-dose combination medication that is used as a third- or fourth-line treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer or gastric cancer, after chemotherapy and targeted t ...

, a cancer drug *

TAS-108 TAS-108, also known as SR-16234, is a drug discovered by Masato Tanabe and under development by SRI International and Taiho Pharmaceutical. It is a steroid hormone that has shown signs of treating and preventing breast cancer, even in patients ...

or SR16234, a steroid hormone *

Trent Accreditation Scheme The Trent Accreditation Scheme (TAS), now replaced ''de facto'' by a number of independent accreditation schemes, such as the QHA Trent Accreditation, was a British accreditation scheme formed with a mission to maintain and continually evaluate st ...

, in UK healthcare

Other fields

*Traffic Advisory System, for aircraft (e. g.

TCAS A traffic alert and collision avoidance system (TCAS), pronounced ), also known as an Airborne Collision Avoidance System (ACAS), is an aircraft collision avoidance system designed to reduce the incidence of mid-air collision (MAC) between aircraf ...

) *

True airspeed The true airspeed (TAS; also KTAS, for ''knots true airspeed'') of an aircraft is the speed of the aircraft relative to the air mass through which it is flying. The true airspeed is important information for accurate navigation of an aircraft. Tra ...

, of an aircraft *

Total analysis system The term total analysis system (TAS) describes a device that combines and automates all necessary steps for the chemical analysis of a sample (e.g., sampling, sample transport, filtration, dilution, chemical reactions, separation, and detection). M ...

, chemical analysis technology * Neutron triple-axis spectrometry, a technique used in inelastic neutron scattering

Sports

TAS de Casablanca Tihad Athletic Sport () is a Moroccan football club based in Casablanca. Of the many clubs based in Casablanca, they are one of the most popular behind Wydad Casablanca, Raja Casablanca and RAC. History TAS de Casablanca won their first major t ...

, a Moroccan football club *

TAS Racing TAS Racing (''Temple Auto Salvage'') is a motorcycle road racing team based in Moneymore, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Owned by Hector Neill, with his son Philip Neill as the team manager, the team has been known under a series of names ...

, a motorcycle team in Moneymore, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland *

HK Taš HK Taš is a developmental ice hockey club in Belgrade, Serbia. HK Taš was formed in 1995. The club built from bottom up, starting out with junior teams only. They also used to play in the Serbian Hockey League The Serbian Hockey League is th ...

, an ice hockey club in Belgrade, Serbia *

Court of Arbitration for Sport The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS; , TAS) is an international body established in 1984 to settle disputes related to sport through arbitration. Its headquarters are in Lausanne, Switzerland, and its courts are located in New York City, Sy ...

(), Lausanne, Switzerland

Transportation

* Lotus Air (ICAO code: TAS), Egyptian airline *

Tashkent International Airport Islam Karimov Tashkent International Airport () is the main and the busiest international airport in Uzbekistan and the second busiest airport in Central Asia (after Almaty International Airport in Kazakhstan) as well as List of the busiest air ...

(IATA code: TAS), Uzbekistan *

TAS – Transportes Aéreos Salvador TAS, Tas, tas, or TAs may refer to: Places *Tasmania, Australia, an abbreviation * Tas-Anna, a rural locality in Neryuktyayinsky 1-y Rural Okrug of Olyokminsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia * Tas-Kystabyt, a mountain range in Far East Ru ...

TasRail TasRail (legal name Tasmanian Railway Pty Limited) is a Tasmanian Government state-owned enterprise that has operated the Rail transport in Tasmania, mainline railways in Tasmania since September 2009. It operates only freight services. Histo ...

, a train operator owned by the Government of Tasmania *Tvornica Automobila Sarajevo, a former Yugoslav automobile manufacturer; see

Other uses

* ''Tas'' (series), science fiction novels by E.C. Eliott *

, a WW2 medium/heavy tank from Hungary *

, defunct Brazilian airline * Tas, father of Lél (Lehel), one of the

* Tas (clan), an agricultural clan in India and Pakistan *

Taxpayer Advocate Service The Office of the Taxpayer Advocate, also called the Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS), is an office within the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, reporting directly to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. The o ...

, United States *

The Artists' Studio The Artists' Studio is an independent for-profit community theatre, located in Fishers, Indiana, Fishers, Indiana, United States. It was founded in January 2003 by David and Joellyn Young, an ex-Broadway musical director and actress respectively ...

, a community theatre in Indiana, United States *

The Atlas Society The Atlas Society (TAS) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that promotes the philosophy of Ayn Rand Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; , 1905March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand (), was a Russian- ...

, an organization that promotes Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand * Travelers' Aid Society (spelled "Travellers" outside the US), a charitable organization