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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, a programming block on Cartoon Network
Akademiska Sångföreningen, 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

Akciová společnost (a.s.), a Czech form of joint-stock company
Akciová spoločnosť (a.s.), a Slovak form of joint-stock company
Aktieselskab or A/S, a type of Danish stock-based company
Aksjeselskap or AS, a type of Norwegian stock-based company

Businesses and organizations

A.S. Roma, an Italian football club
Alaska Airlines, IATA airline designator
Armée secrète (Belgium), a World War II resistance organization
KK AS Basket, a Serbian basketball club
Armée secrète, a French resistance organization
Oakland Athletics, an American baseball team referred to as the A's
Australian Standards, a standards organisation established in 1922
Voiturettes Automobiles A.S., a French-based car manufacturer in 1920s
- AS Type A2, a sports car manufactured by Voiturettes Automobiles A.S.
Towarzystwo Budowy Samochodów AS, a Poland-based car manufacturer in 1920s and 1930s
- AS S1 and AS S2, a passenger car manufactured by Towarzystwo Budowy Samochodów AS

Education and research

Academia Sinica, the national academy of Taiwan
AS-level (disambiguation), any of several uses in education
Associate of Science, an American academic degree

Language

As language, a language of West Papua, Indonesia
as, ISO 639-1 code for the Assamese language of India
As (cuneiform), a written character
Aš (cuneiform), a written character

Mathematics, science and technology

Computing

as (Unix), an assembler program
.as, the Internet country code top-level domain for American Samoa
ActionScript, for Flash and Flex applications
Autonomous system (Internet), a collection of IP networks
Application server, a computer running back-end applications
the type conversion operator as, used in C# and Rust

Health and medicine

Angelman syndrome, a neuro-genetic disorder
Ankylosing spondylitis, a type of arthritis
Aortic stenosis, a valvular heart disease
Asparagine synthase (glutamine-hydrolysing), an enzyme
Asperger syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder
Auricular splint, a custom-made medical device used as part of ear surgery

Units of measurement

Arcsecond, 1⁄60 arcminute, a unit of angular measurement
Attosecond or as, 10⁻¹⁸ second, a subunit of time
Attosiemens or aS, 10⁻¹⁸ siemens, a subunit of electric conductance

Other uses in mathematics and science

Abramowitz and Stegun, a mathematical reference work
Aggregate supply, in economics, the total supply of goods
Almost surely or a.s., in probability theory
Arsenic, symbol As, a chemical element
As (beetle), a genus in family Cerylonidae
Tropical savanna climate, labelled As or Aw

Places

Europe

Aš, a town in the Czech Republic
Ås, Akershus, Norway
As, Belgium, in Limburg
Ås, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway
Ås, Swedish name for the Harju quarter in Helsinki, Finland

Other places

As-e Jadid (اس جديد, "New As"), a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
As-e Qadim (اس قديم, "Old As"), a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
American Samoa (ISO 3166 code AS)
- .as, the Internet country code top-level domain for American Samoa
Australia (obsolete NATO and FIPS country codes AS)
Assam, a state of India

Religion

Æsir (singular: ás, áss, ǫ́ss), one of the pantheon of Norse gods
ʿAlayhi s-salām (عليه السلام), Arabic for "Peace be upon him", post-nominal posthumous Islamic honorific

Other uses

As (Roman coin), a coin and unit of weight
A.S., Anno Societatis, a calendrical system used in the Society for Creative Anachronism
Anti-submarine warfare, A/S
Old name for Ossetians, "As" or "Asi"
A US Navy hull classification symbol: Submarine tender (AS)
Altostratus, a cloud that is sometimes abbreviated as As.
AS, Indonesian abbreviation for United States