An ant is a eusocial insect that belongs to the same order as wasps and bees.

Ant, Ants, or ANT may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

  • Ant (Image Comics), a character from Image Comics
  • Ant (DC Comics)<!--Eddie Whit-->, a character from DC Comics
  • Ant, a character from the show WordWorld

Film and television

  • A.N.T. Farm, a TV series
  • Afghanistan National Television
  • It Happened at Lakewood Manor or Ants, a 1977 TV film starring Suzanne Somers and Robert Foxworth

Music

  • The Ants, an English punk rock band formed in spring 1977, later better known as Adam and the Ants
  • "A.N.T.S." a song by Adam and the Ants, a parody of YMCA by the Village People
  • "ANTS", a song by Xiu Xiu from OH NO
  • "Ant", a song by They Might Be Giants from Indestructible Object

Written media

  • Ant (magazine) (Turkish 'Oath'), a left-wing weekly publication in Turkey
  • The Ants, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reference book about ants
  • Les Fourmis or The Ants, a series of French novels by Bernard Werber

Other media

  • American Negro Theater, formed in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City
  • Microsoft Ants, a free multiplayer PC game
  • The Ants (play), a 2023 play by Ramiz Monsef

Organisations and enterprises

  • Advanced Network Technology, a division of the US National Security Agency; see NSA ANT catalog
  • Aids to Navigation Team, of the United States Coast Guard
  • Alliance for National Transformation, a political party in Uganda
  • Ant Financial, a Chinese payment-processing company
  • Armée Nationale Tchadienne, the native name of the Chad National Army
  • ANT cooperative involved in the ANT case, Soviet Union

People

  • Ant (name), English language nickname abbreviated from the given name Anthony/Antony, as well as a surname, given name and stage name
  • Ant (comedian), stage name of Anthony Steven Kalloniatis
  • Adam Ant, stage name of Stuart Goddard, an English singer and frontman of the rock band Adam and the Ants

Places

  • Ant, Lucknow, a village in Lucknow district, Uttar Pradesh, India
  • Ant, a village in Avram Iancu, Bihor County, Romania
  • Ant Atoll, part of the Senyavin island group in the Federated States of Micronesia
  • Antigua and Barbuda (IOC and UNDP country code)
  • County Antrim, former county in Northern Ireland, Chapman code
  • Netherlands Antilles (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code)
  • River Ant, a river in Norfolk, England

Science, technology, and mathematics

Computing

  • ANT (network), a wireless personal area network protocol
  • Apache Ant, a Java-based software build system
  • Turmite or ant, a type of Turing machine
  • Web crawler or ant

Mathematics

  • Algebraic number theory, a branch of pure mathematics
  • Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium, a symposium on Algorithmic Number Theory

Other sciences

  • Actor–network theory, an approach to social theory and research
  • Adenine nucleotide translocator
  • Anacamptis (abbreviation Ant), a genus of orchids
  • Antenna noise temperature
  • Antlia, constellation abbreviation as standardized by the International Astronomical Union
  • Automatic negative thoughts, in psychology

Other uses

  • Ant (chair), a modern chair designed by Arne Jacobsen
  • ANT, a designation for aircraft designed by Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev
  • An-Naml ("The Ant" or "The Ants"), the twenty-seventh sura of the Qur'an
  • HMS Ant, several ships of the Royal Navy

See also

  • Ain't
  • ANT1, a Greek broadcaster
  • Anth (disambiguation)
  • Antony (disambiguation)
  • Ants (given name), an Estonian given name
  • Antz, an animated film
  • Aunt
  • Langton's ant, a two-dimensional Turing machine with a very simple set of rules