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Anchor bolt

An anchor bolt is a steel bolt or rod that connects components like column base plates and sill plates to concrete or masonry, either cast-in-place or post-installed.

Anchor Brewing Company

Anchor Brewing Company was a San Francisco brewery, founded in 1896 and widely recognized as the first American microbrewery, best known for Anchor Steam Beer.

Anchor escapement

The anchor escapement is a clock escapement in which an anchor-shaped lever with pallets rocks against an escape wheel, allowing small pendulum swings and accurate longcase clocks from about 1670.

Oct 26, 2026

Anchor modeling is an open-source 6NF database modeling technique for evolving data environments, using anchors, knots, attributes, and ties; every schema change is additive, with per-attribute history, distinct from Data Vault.

Anchor Point

Anchor Point (K'kaq') is an unincorporated community on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula near Homer, known for sport fishing and as the westernmost point reachable by road.

ANCHOR trial

ANCHOR (NCT01047501) was Amarin's phase 3, 12-week, randomized trial of icosapent ethyl (AMR101/Vascepa) in 702 statin-treated patients with triglycerides 200-499 mg/dL; it met its lipid endpoints but the FDA rejected the ANCHOR indication.

Anchorage (bridge)

An anchorage is a massive concrete or rock structure at each end of a suspension bridge that secures the main cables and transfers their tension to the ground.

Sep 19, 2026

Anchorage Capital Group

Anchorage Capital Group is a New York credit and distressed-debt investment firm founded in 2003 by Kevin Ulrich and Tony Davis, both formerly of Goldman Sachs.

Anchorage School District

Anchorage School District (ASD), Alaska's largest public school district, serves about 43,000 students in over 100 schools under Superintendent Jharrett Bryantt, facing a $90 million deficit, staff cuts, and three elementary school closures in 2026.

Anchorage White Raven

The Anchorage White Raven is a leucistic common raven, rare for its white plumage and blue eyes, that became a local celebrity in Anchorage, Alaska, starting in October 2023.

Sep 29, 2026

Anchorage-independent growth assay

The anchorage-independent growth assay tests whether cells can proliferate without attachment to a surface, most commonly in soft agar, and serves as a stringent in vitro test of malignant transformation.

Anchorage, Alaska

Anchorage, Alaska (Dena'ina: Dgheyaytnu) is Alaska's largest city, a unified municipality founded in 1915 as an Alaska Railroad port, with about 287,000 residents, the busiest US cargo airport, and a cost of living 25 percent above the national average.

Sep 29, 2026

Anchored multiplex polymerase chain reaction

Anchored multiplex polymerase chain reaction (AMP) is a targeted sequencing method, described in 2014 at Massachusetts General Hospital, that detects gene fusions with unknown partners from FFPE specimens.

Anchoring effect

Anchoring effect (anchoring bias, anchoring-and-adjustment heuristic): cognitive bias in which numerical judgments assimilate toward an initial anchor value, introduced by Tversky and Kahneman in 1974; large meta-analytic effect with identified boundary conditions.

Anchorite

An anchorite, also called an anachoret, was a Christian recluse formally enclosed in a cell attached to a church, committed to remaining there for life in prayer.

Anchorman (film series)

The Anchorman series is a pair of American satirical comedy films directed by Adam McKay and starring Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy, a fictional 1970s San Diego TV news anchor.

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues is a 2013 Paramount comedy sequel directed by Adam McKay, starring Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy at a 24-hour news network; $127.3M US gross, 74% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is a 2004 American comedy directed by Adam McKay, co-written with and starring Will Ferrell as a 1970s San Diego TV anchor; it grossed $90 million worldwide and spawned Anchorman 2 (2013).

Anchors (machine learning)

Anchors is a model-agnostic explainability method, introduced by Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Sameer Singh, and Carlos Guestrin in 2018, that explains individual predictions of black-box classifiers with high-precision if-then rules.

Anchors Aweigh

Anchors Aweigh: 1906 march by Lt. Charles A. Zimmermann and Midshipman Alfred Hart Miles, fight song of the U.S. Naval Academy and unofficial song of the U.S. Navy, premiered at the 1906 Army-Navy game (Navy won 10-0).

Anchors Aweigh (film)

Anchors Aweigh, 1945 MGM Technicolor musical directed by George Sidney, starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Kathryn Grayson; famous for Kelly's Jerry Mouse dance and its Best Scoring Oscar.

Anchovies as food

Anchovies as food: small Engraulidae fish (Engraulis encrasicolus, E. mordax) eaten fresh or salt-cured, oil-packed, or pickled; protein- and omega-3-rich but very high sodium when cured, used in Caesar dressing, garum, and Korean fish sauce.

Anchovy

Anchovy, family Engraulidae (Engraulis species), small schooling forage fish; Peruvian anchoveta supports the world's largest single-species fishery, 5.3 million tonnes caught in 2023, also salt-cured food and fishmeal source.

Anchusa

Anchusa (bugloss, alkanet) is a Boraginaceae herb genus published by Linnaeus in 1753, with about 35 species from the Mediterranean to Mongolia, Pakistan, and South Africa, used in traditional medicine and as a red dye source.

Sep 19, 2026

Ancient (Norwegian black metal band)

Ancient is a Norwegian black metal band formed in Bergen in 1992 by guitarist Aphazel, later adding gothic and melodic elements across seven studio albums.

Ancient Agora of Athens

The Ancient Agora of Athens was the civic center of ancient Athens, northwest of the Acropolis, in use from the 6th century BC to the 6th century AD.

Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles

Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles (Order of Turtles, Turtle Club): a joking drinking fraternity linked to WWII pilots; members asked "Are you a turtle?" must give a password or buy drinks. Wally Schirra was asked it during the 1962 Sigma 7 launch.

Ancient and medieval garment terminology

Ancient and medieval garment terminology is the vocabulary naming tunics, cloaks, and undergarments in Greek, Latin, and Semitic texts, with meanings that shifted by period and register.