Ans or ANS or variation, may refer to:

Places

  • Ans, Belgium, a municipality in Belgium
  • Ans, Denmark, a village in Denmark
  • Angus, Scotland, UK; a council area by its Chapman code
  • Ainsdale railway station, England, UK (by station code ANS)
  • Andahuaylas Airport, Peru (by IATA airport code ANS)

People

  • Ans (given name), a Dutch feminine given name
  • Anna Nicole Smith, American model and actress

Organizations

  • Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  • American Name Society
  • American Nuclear Society
  • American Numismatic Society, formerly the American Numismatic and Archaeological Society
  • ANS Group of Companies, a news organization in Azerbaijan
  • , a Cambodian resistance group; see Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea
  • Audubon Naturalist Society, an American environmental organization

Chemistry and biology

  • Adrenergic nervous system, adrenaline and noradrenaline neurotransmitters distribution in human body
  • 8-Anilinonaphthalene-1-sulfonic acid, a fluorescent chemical compound used as a molecular probe
  • Anthocyanidin synthase, an enzyme in the leucocyanidin biosynthesis pathway
  • Approximate number system, a hypothesized physiological basis for the sense of number
  • Autonomic nervous system, 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, a non-profit network service provider in the 1990s
  • American National Standards, defined by the American National Standards Institute
  • ans, a variable in calculators referring to the most recent answer
  • ANS carriage control characters (or ASA control characters), for computer line printers
  • Asymmetric numeral systems, coding in data compression
  • Authoritative name server, a DNS server
  • Artificial neural system, or Artificial neural network
  • Air Navigation Services, as delivered by an Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP)
  • Apple Network Server, a late 1990s AIX based server machine from Apple Inc.
  • Astronomical Netherlands Satellite, a Dutch satellite

Music

  • ANS (album), a box set from the British band Coil
  • ANS synthesizer, a Russian photoelectric musical instrument

Other uses

  • Al Ansar FC, a Lebanese association football club
  • Amman National School, in Amman, Jordan
  • Ansvarlig selskap, a Norwegian personal responsibility company model
  • Algemeen Nijmeegs Studentenblad, a Dutch student magazine
  • Akademia Nauk Stosowanych, a vocational university in Nowy Targ, Poland

See also

  • AN (disambiguation)
  • Answer (disambiguation), for which "Ans." may be an abbreviation