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 (Saudi Arabia), 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, an organization system of larger or important airports in Canada
  • National Airspace System, an aviation control system in the United States
  • Naval air squadron, an aircraft-focused unit associated with a navy
  • Naval air station, a military air base associated with a navy
  • Norwegian Air Shuttle, an airline in Norway
  • National Aviation Services, an aviation services provider headquartered in Kuwait

Commerce

  • Nihon Ad Systems, 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 Sciences (see below under Science & Technology)
  • National Academy of Songwriters
  • National Academy of Sports (Philippines)
  • HSE National Ambulance Service of Ireland
  • National Apprenticeship Service, UK
  • National Archives of Scotland, Edinburgh
  • National Association of Scholars, US
  • Former National Association of Schoolmasters, UK
  • National Association of Seadogs, a Nigerian confraternity
  • National Audubon Society, US conservancy organization
  • National Autistic Society, UK
  • National Salvation Front (South Sudan), a militant group
  • Nautical Archaeology Society, UK
  • Nord Anglia International School Dubai

People

  • Lil Nas X (born 1999), American rapper
  • Nas Majeed, contestant on the sixth series of Love Island
  • Digital Nas (born 1998), American record producer
  • Mehmet Nas (born 1979), Turkish footballer
  • Nesrin Nas (born 1958), Turkish academic
  • Nuseir Yassin (born 1992), Arab-Israeli Vlogger, creator of Nas Daily

Places

  • Lynden Pindling International Airport (IATA airport code NAS), near Nassau, Bahamas
  • Nas (Ikaria), a village in the Greek island of Icaria

Religion

  • al-Nas, Islamic scriptural chapter in the Quran
  • New American Standard Bible, a 1971 English translation of the Bible
  • Nordic Asa-Community (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
  • Neonatal abstinence syndrome, a drug withdrawal syndrome found in infants that have been administered drugs
  • Normative Aging Study, a long-term study of the health effects of aging
  • Nucleophilic acyl substitution, a reaction in organic chemistry
  • Nucleophilic aromatic substitution, a reaction in organic chemistry

Computing and networks

  • NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division
  • NetWare Access Server, a Novell product
  • Network access server
  • Network-attached storage
  • Neural architecture search
  • 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

See also

  • Naas (disambiguation)
  • Nass (disambiguation)
  • Naz (disambiguation)