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Ambush
Ambush: surprise attack from concealed positions on a moving or halted target (Old French embusche, Latin inboscāre). Point, area, antiarmor forms; linear, L-shaped, V-shaped formations; kill-zone doctrine and insurgent use.
Ambush Bay
Ambush Bay, a bay on the north coast of Joinville Island, Antarctic Peninsula, east of King Point; named by the UK in 1957, formerly Bahía Carminatti, an Adélie penguin Important Bird Area.
AMC (TV channel)
AMC (originally American Movie Classics) is an American basic cable channel owned by AMC Networks/AMC Global Media. Launched for uncut, commercial-free classic films, it rebranded in 2002 and became a prestige drama home with Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and The Walking Dead, now paired with the AMC+ streaming service.
AMC Ambassador
The AMC Ambassador, also known as the Rambler Ambassador, was the top-of-the-line car of American Motors Corporation from 1958 until it was dropped after the 1974 model year.
AMC AMX
The AMC AMX, also known as the American Motors AMX, was a two-seat muscle car produced by American Motors from 1968 to 1970, with 19,134 built on a shortened Javelin platform.
AMC Eagle
The AMC Eagle, also known as the American Motors Eagle, is a four-wheel-drive passenger car American Motors built for 1980 through 1988, often called the first crossover vehicle.
AMC Gremlin
The AMC Gremlin, also known as the American Motors Gremlin, is a subcompact car American Motors built from 1970 to 1978 by shortening its Hornet.
AMC Hornet
The AMC Hornet, also called American Motors Hornet, is a compact car built from 1970 to 1977 and the basis for the Gremlin, Concord, and Eagle.
AMC Javelin
The AMC Javelin, also sold as the American Motors Javelin, was a two-door pony car built by American Motors from 1968 to 1974 to compete with the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro.
AMC Matador
The AMC Matador was a NASCAR Winston Cup stock car built by American Motors, winning five races between 1973 and 1975 with Mark Donohue and Bobby Allison.
AMC Networks
AMC Networks, renamed AMC Global Media Inc. in April 2026 (NASDAQ: AMCX), is a New York media company spun off from Cablevision in 2011; it owns AMC, BBC America, IFC, SundanceTV, We TV, streaming services AMC+, Shudder and Acorn TV, and The Walking Dead Universe IP, distinct from the AMC theater chain.
AMC Pacer
The AMC Pacer, also known as the American Motors Pacer, is a two-door compact car sold by AMC from 1975 to 1980, marketed as the first wide small car.
AMC straight-6 engine
The AMC straight-6 engine is a family of inline-six gasoline engines that American Motors produced from 1964 to 2006, its 4.0-liter version powering Jeep Cherokees and Wranglers for two decades.
AMC Theatres
AMC Theatres (American Multi-Cinema, AMC Entertainment Holdings) is the world's largest movie theatre chain, founded 1920 in Kansas City, with about 860 theatres and 9,600 screens, headquartered in Leawood, Kansas, known for the first multiplex and AMC Stubs A-List.
AMC V8 engine
The AMC V8 engine is a family of 90-degree overhead-valve V8 gasoline engines built by American Motors, Nash, and Hudson from 1956 to 1991 in displacements from 250 to 401 cubic inches.
AMC+
AMC+ is a premium streaming service operated by AMC Networks, launched in June 2020, which bundles programming from AMC, BBC America, IFC, and Sundance TV with the streaming services Shudder, Sundance Now, and IFC Films Unlimited.
Amcenestrant
Amcenestrant (SAR439859) is Sanofi's oral selective estrogen receptor degrader for ER-positive breast cancer; its AMEERA program failed phase 2/3 endpoints and development was discontinued in August 2022.
Amchitka Island
Amchitka Island, a 40-mile Aleutian island in the Rat Island group, hosted three US underground nuclear tests (Long Shot 1965, Milrow 1969, Cannikin 1971, the largest US underground test); assessments found no test-attributable radionuclide leakage.
AMCI Group
AMCI Group is a privately held American investment group founded in 1986 by Hans J. Mende and Fritz R. Kundrun that invests in and operates natural resources, metals, and energy businesses.
Amcinonide
Amcinonide (Cyclocort) is a synthetic topical corticosteroid, C28H35FO7, approved in the US in 1979, used as 0.1% cream, ointment, and lotion for corticosteroid-responsive dermatoses.
amcl (robotics)
AMCL (Adaptive Monte Carlo Localization) is a probabilistic method that localizes a mobile robot in a known map using a particle filter and a 2D laser scanner.
Amcor
Amcor is a Jersey-incorporated manufacturer of consumer packaging with two segments, flexible and rigid, which acquired Berry Global in 2025 and reached $23.5 billion in fiscal 2026 sales.
AMD
AMD, also known as Advanced Micro Devices, is an American semiconductor company founded in 1969 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, making CPUs, GPUs, and AI accelerators.
AMD Athlon
The AMD Athlon is a family of x86 microprocessors introduced by AMD in 1999, code named K7, and the first x86 chip free of licensed Intel technology.
AMD E-Series APU
The AMD E-Series APU is a low-power processor family launched by AMD in January 2011, combining Bobcat x86 CPU cores and DirectX 11 graphics on one chip.
AMD FirePro
AMD FirePro, also known as ATI FireGL, was a brand of professional workstation and server graphics cards from ATI and AMD, retired in 2016 in favor of Radeon Pro.
AMD FireStream
AMD FireStream was a line of GPGPU accelerator cards sold by AMD from 2006 to about 2010 for high-performance computing, later succeeded by the FirePro S series.
AMD Instinct
AMD Instinct, formerly Radeon Instinct, is AMD's line of data center GPU accelerators for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, built on CDNA architectures and the open ROCm software stack.
AMD Instinct MI300X
The AMD Instinct MI300X is a data center GPU accelerator AMD released in December 2023 for training and running large language models, built on the CDNA 3 architecture.
AMD K5
The AMD K5 is a fifth-generation x86 microprocessor released by AMD in 1996, the company's first design made independently of Intel, sold under the Performance Rating scheme.