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Aeolus (Αἴολος)
Aeolus (Αἴολος, Aiolos), Greek mythological keeper of the winds and king of floating Aeolia, who gave Odysseus the bag of winds in Odyssey 10; distinct from Aeolus son of Hellen and son of Poseidon.
Aeon
An aeon, also spelled eon, is the longest formal division of geologic time, ranking above eras and periods. Earth's history is divided into four eons: Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic, and Phanerozoic.
Aeon (Thelema)
In Thelema, an Aeon (also spelled Æon) is a roughly 2,000-year period ruled by an Egyptian god; Aleister Crowley taught that the Aeon of Horus began in 1904.
Aeon (αἰών) (Gnosticism)
An aeon (Greek: αἰών, aiōn) in Gnosticism is a divine emanation from the ultimate God, one of the spiritual beings or realms that make up the Pleroma.
Aeon (αἰών) (Japanese retail company)
Aeon Co., Ltd. (イオン株式会社) is a Japanese pure holding company that heads the country's largest retail group, running 17,620 stores across supermarkets, drugstores, convenience stores, malls, and financial services.
Æon Flux
Æon Flux: American adult animated science fiction series created by Peter Chung for MTV (1991–1995), also known as Aeon Flux. Wordless Liquid Television shorts about agent Æon versus Bregna's Trevor Goodchild; later ten half-hour episodes and a poorly received 2005 Charlize Theron film.
Æon Flux (film)
Æon Flux is a 2005 American science fiction action film directed by Karyn Kusama, starring Charlize Theron as an assassin in Earth's last surviving city, adapted from the MTV animated series.
Aeon of Horus
The Aeon of Horus is the present era in the religion of Thelema, said to have begun in 1904 and governed by the god Horus.
ÆON:MODE
ÆON:MODE is the drum & bass project of Australian-born, Denver-based producer JP Orchison, better known as Blanke, launched in 2022 on Deadbeats to separate his drum & bass output.
Aeorestes
Aeorestes, Fitzinger 1870, is the hoary-bat lineage of lasiurine bats, elevated to a genus by Baird et al. 2015 with four species but now mostly treated as a subgenus of Lasiurus.
Aeovian Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Aeovian Pharmaceuticals, formerly Delos Pharmaceuticals, is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in Berkeley, California. Its lead candidate, AV078, is in Phase 2 trials for tuberous sclerosis complex-related epilepsy.
AEP Ohio
AEP Ohio is the brand of Ohio Power Company, an American Electric Power utility headquartered in Gahanna, Ohio, serving about 1.5 million customers in central and southern Ohio.
AEP Texas
AEP Texas is the transmission and distribution utility subsidiary of American Electric Power, delivering electricity to more than one million meters across south and west Texas without selling the power itself.
Aepf Private Investors
AEPF Private Investors is a series of six pooled private equity funds for private investors, administered and placed by J.P. Morgan units, first offered in 2009 with about $960 million sold.
Aephraim M. Steinberg
Aephraim M. Steinberg is a quantum optics and quantum information physicist at the University of Toronto, known for measuring how long atoms take to tunnel through barriers.
Aepolium
Aepolium was an ancient oppidum on the Black Sea coast between the Danube and Dniester, named by Pliny the Elder (NH 4.82) and tentatively placed near modern Shabalata, Ukraine.
Aequorea victoria
Aequorea victoria, the water jellyfish (also called Aequorea aequorea), is a Pacific hydrozoan source of aequorin and green fluorescent protein (GFP), the 238-amino-acid, 508 nm-emitting reporter behind the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Aequorin
Aequorin: calcium-sensitive photoprotein from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria, discovered by Osamu Shimomura in 1962; emits blue light on calcium binding and is widely used as an intracellular calcium indicator.
Aequs
Aequs is an Indian precision contract manufacturer in Belagavi, Karnataka, supplying aerospace parts to Airbus, Boeing, and Safran; it listed on the NSE in December 2025.
Aer Lingus
Aer Lingus is the flag carrier airline of Ireland, founded in 1936 and headquartered at Dublin Airport, with more than 100 routes to Europe and North America.
Aera Energy
Aera Energy is a California oil and gas producer formed in 1997 in Bakersfield, producing about a quarter of the state's oil from San Joaquin Valley heavy-oil fields.
Aera Therapeutics
Aera Therapeutics is a US biotechnology company founded by Broad Institute scientist Feng Zhang, launched publicly in 2023 with $193 million to develop delivery platforms for genetic medicines.
Aeracura Corona
Aeracura Corona is a 250 km diameter corona, a ring-shaped volcano-tectonic feature, on Venus at 19°S, 238.5°E, IAU-named in 1994 for a Celtic earth goddess.
Aeration
Aeration: adding dissolved oxygen to water via mechanical aerators, diffusers, or pure oxygen, mainly in aquaculture and ponds. Key metrics: SAE around 1.4–2.1 kg O2/kWh; biofloc ponds need 25–150 hp/ha.
AerCap
AerCap Holdings N.V. (AER), headquartered in Dublin, is the world's largest commercial aircraft owner and aviation lessor, formed from debis AirFinance and the 2014 ILFC acquisition, with 1,589 aircraft, ~1,300 engines, and over 300 helicopters as of June 30, 2026.
Aerenchyma
Aerenchyma is plant tissue with enlarged, interconnected gas spaces that transport oxygen to flooded roots. Forms lysigenously, schizogenously, or expansigenously; key to wetland adaptation, crop flooding tolerance, and methane venting.
Ærfugl (gas field)
Ærfugl is a gas condensate field in the Norwegian Sea, discovered in 2000 as Snadd and operated by Aker BP as a subsea tie-back to the Skarv FPSO, on stream since 2020.
Aeria family
Aeria family: main-belt asteroid family named for parent body 369 Aeria; a primitive, dark, spectrally red family that appears redder in Gaia DR3 than SDSS data; parent body an M-/X-type asteroid, absolute magnitude 13.2.
Aerial anti-shipping strike
Aerial anti-shipping strike is the mission of attacking warships and merchant vessels from the air, using torpedoes, bombs, mines, and guided missiles against moving, defended targets.
Aerial application
Aerial application is the delivery of pesticides, fertilizers, or seeds onto crops from aircraft or drones, treating about 71 million US acres and nearly all forest protection products.