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Aging test (reliability engineering)
An aging test is a reliability-engineering method that subjects components or materials to intensified stress, often elevated temperature, and extrapolates the resulting degradation back to normal use conditions to predict field lifetime.
AgInSbTe (AIST) phase-change material
AgInSbTe (AIST) is a phase-change alloy of silver, indium, antimony, and tellurium that switches between amorphous and crystalline states, used in rewritable optical discs since 1997.
Agios Nikolaos power station
Agios Nikolaos power station is a natural gas-fired power station at Agios Nikolaos in Viotia, central Greece, owned by Protergia, with three combined-cycle units totaling about 1,604 MW.
Agios Vasileios, Laconia
Agios Vasileios (Ayios Vasileios), hill 12 km south of Sparta in Laconia, Greece, site of the Mycenaean palace of Laconia, identified after five Linear B tablets found in 2008; palace built c. 1370 BCE, destroyed by fire c. 1250 BCE.
Agisoft Metashape
Agisoft Metashape is photogrammetry software by Agisoft LLC, founded in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2006, that reconstructs 3D models, point clouds, and georeferenced orthomosaics from images and laser scans.
Agit Kabayel
Agit Kabayel, German heavyweight boxer (born 1992), 27-0 with 19 KOs, WBC world heavyweight champion since June 2026 after winning the interim belt against Zhilei Zhang in February 2025; known for body punching and pressure fighting.
Agitation
Agitation is the mechanically induced motion of a fluid in a vessel, usually by a rotating impeller, used to blend liquids, disperse gases, and suspend solids.
Agitprop (Агитпроп)
Agitprop (Агитпроп), short for agitation and propaganda, was a Soviet Communist Party department created in 1920 and the name for short, mobile political theater developed in Russia and Weimar Germany.
Ağıt
Ağıt is a Turkish folk-literature genre of lament: improvised poems and songs chanted with melody behind the dead, one of the oldest genres of Turkish oral literature.
Agkistrodon
Agkistrodon is a genus of venomous pit vipers found in North and Central America, best known for the copperhead, the semiaquatic cottonmouth or water moccasin, and the cantils.
Agkistrodon piscivorus
Agkistrodon piscivorus, the cottonmouth or water moccasin, is a venomous semiaquatic pit viper of the southeastern United States, named for its white mouth display; formerly three subspecies, now two species with A. conanti split off.
AGL Energy
AGL Energy is an Australian integrated energy company, or gentailer, that generates and retails electricity and gas, with about 20% of National Electricity Market capacity and 4.6 million customer services.
Aglaia
Aglaia (plant genus), Aglaia Lour., a genus of about 110–125 tropical trees and shrubs in the mahogany family Meliaceae, ranging from India to Samoa, sole source of anticancer flavagline compounds such as rocaglamide.
Aglais (musician)
Aglais (Ancient Greek Ἀγλαΐς), daughter of Megakles, was a Hellenistic trumpet player who performed at the first great procession at Alexandria and was remembered for her gluttony.
Aglajidae
Aglajidae, head-shield sea slugs (Cephalaspidea, Gastropoda), are carnivorous tropical and temperate marine slugs, ~85 species, mostly radula-less whole-prey predators, revised into 15 genera by Zamora-Silva & Malaquias (2018).
Aglaomorpha (plant)
Aglaomorpha Schott, a genus of large tropical humus-collecting ferns in Polypodiaceae from Asia and Malesia, now treated as a rejected name synonymized under Drynaria; includes A. coronans, a 2 m houseplant fern.
Aglaonema
Aglaonema, or Chinese evergreen, is a genus of about 21-26 Araceae species native from northeast India to Papua New Guinea, grown as low-light houseplants and introduced to the West in 1885.
Aglatimagene besadenovec
Aglatimagene besadenovec (CAN-2409) is Candel Therapeutics' replication-defective adenovirus delivering the HSV thymidine kinase gene, injected into tumors with valacyclovir prodrug; positive phase 3 in localized prostate cancer, phase 2a in NSCLC, not yet approved.
Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo (अगले जनम मोहे बिटिया ही कीजो)
Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo (अगले जनम मोहे बिटिया ही कीजो) is a Zee TV Hindi drama serial (16 March 2009 to 12 February 2011, 423 episodes) starring Ratan Rajput as Laali, a poor Bihari girl sold to landlord Loha Singh, produced by Swastik Pictures.
Aglet
Aglet (also aiglet): the small plastic or metal sheath on the end of a shoelace, drawstring, or cord that prevents fraying and aids threading through eyelets; from Old French aiguillette, needle; historically ornamental metal lace tags.
Agloe, New York
Agloe, New York is a phantom settlement in the Catskills created by General Drafting cartographers Otto G. Lindberg and Ernest Alpers as a copyright trap, which became partly real when the Agloe General Store opened at the mapped intersection.
AGM-114 Hellfire
The AGM-114 Hellfire, named for Helicopter Launched, Fire and Forget Missile, is an American air-to-ground guided missile fielded since 1986, mostly laser-guided, and widely fired from drones.
AGM-129 ACM
The AGM-129 ACM, also called the Advanced Cruise Missile, was a stealthy nuclear air-launched cruise missile carried by US B-52H bombers, retired between 2007 and 2012.
AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon
The AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) is a 1,000-pound American air-to-surface glide weapon built by Raytheon, guided by GPS and inertial navigation, and used in combat since 1999.
AGM-158 JASSM
The AGM-158 JASSM is a stealthy air-launched cruise missile built by Lockheed Martin for the US Air Force, carrying a 1,000-pound warhead more than 200 nautical miles.
AGM-158C LRASM
The AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) is a stealthy, air-launched cruise missile derived from the JASSM-ER, developed for the United States Navy and Air Force.
AGM-176 Griffin
The AGM-176 Griffin, also known as the Griffin missile, is a lightweight precision-guided air-to-surface missile developed by Raytheon for low-collateral attacks on light targets, carried by gunships and remotely piloted aircraft.
AGM-183 ARRW
The AGM-183 ARRW, or Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon, is a Lockheed Martin air-launched hypersonic missile for the US Air Force, launched from B-52 bombers since 2022.
AGM-188 Rusty Dagger
The AGM-188 Rusty Dagger is an American low-cost, air-launched cruise missile developed by Zone 5 Technologies under the Air Force's ERAM program and delivered to Ukraine.
AGM-190 Black Arrow
The AGM-190 Black Arrow, popularly named Havoc Spear, is an American small air-launched cruise missile developed by Leidos Dynetics for United States Special Operations Command, designated by the Air Force in 2025.