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And/or

And/or is an English conjunction meaning either of two things or both, first recorded in 1853 and rooted in legal terminology; most style authorities, including CMOS, recommend avoiding it.

AND1

AND1 is an American basketball footwear and apparel brand founded in 1993 in Philadelphia by Seth Berger, Jay Coen Gilbert, and Tom Austin. Known for the Mixtape Tour, the Tai Chi shoe worn by Vince Carter, and its peak as the number two US basketball shoe brand behind Nike; now owned by Galaxy Universal.

And2ble

AND2BLE (앤더블, "and double") is a five-member South Korean boy group under YH Entertainment, formed from four ex-Zerobaseone members plus Evnne's Yoo Seungeon; it debuted May 26, 2026 with Sequence 01: Curiosity, selling 731,673 first-week copies.

Anda Baozi Chengzhi

安答堡子城址 (Anda Baozi city site), a Jin-to-Yuan fortified town at Muhu'er Suobuga in Damao United Banner, Inner Mongolia; a 2006 national key cultural relics protection unit, debated as the Ongud seat Andabaozi.

Anda, Heilongjiang

Anda (安达市) is a county-level city under Suihua, Heilongjiang, on the Songnen Plain near Daqing; 3,586 km², 13 towns and 1 township, 2025 GDP 20.01 billion yuan, known for dairy farming and sheepgrass grassland.

Andaaz (अंदाज़)

Andaaz (अंदाज़), 2003 Hindi romantic drama directed by Raj Kanwar, produced by Suneel Darshan, starring Akshay Kumar, Lara Dutta, and Priyanka Chopra; hit love triangle with Nadeem-Shravan music and shared Filmfare debut award.

Andaaz 2

Andaaz 2 (अंदाज़ 2) is a 2025 Hindi romantic drama directed and produced by Suneel Darshan, a spiritual sequel to Andaaz (2003), starring newcomers Aayush Kumar, Akaisha Vats, and Natasha Fernandez in a music-industry love triangle, released 8 August 2025 to poor reviews.

Andaaz Apna Apna

Andaaz Apna Apna, also Andaz Apna Apna (1994), is a Rajkumar Santoshi Hindi cult comedy starring Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Raveena Tandon, and Karisma Kapoor; a flop on release, restored in 4K and re-released in April 2025.

Andabalis

Andabalis (Andavalis, Addaualis, Ambavalis), a Roman road station in southern Cappadocia northeast of Tyana, modern Eski Andaval near Niğde, Turkey, with an imperial stud of Valerian's era and the 5th-6th century Constantine and Helena Church.

Andada

Andada is a traditional mancala board game of the Kunama people of western Eritrea, played mainly by elders in teams, with special opening and endgame rules.

Andago

The Andago is a mobile robotic gait-training device by Hocoma of Volketswil, Switzerland, whose harness dynamically unloads body weight and prevents falls as patients walk over ground instead of on a treadmill.

Andahua-Orcopampa

Andahua-Orcopampa, the Valley of the Volcanoes, is a monogenetic volcanic field in southern Peru's Central Volcanic Zone: a 60 x 60 km scoria cone and lava field, 4,713 m high, last erupting 1490 CE.

Andahuaylas

Andahuaylas is a city and province in the Apurímac region of the southern Peruvian highlands, known as the homeland of the Chanka people defeated by the Inca in AD 1438.

Andal (Mercurian crater)

Andal is a 108-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury at 47.70°S, 37.70°W, approved by the IAU in 1976 and named for a 10th century Tamil writer; it names the proposed pre-Tolstojan Andal-Coleridge multi-ring basin in the Discovery quadrangle.

Andal (ஆண்டாள்)

Andal (ஆண்டாள்), also known as Kodai or Goda, is the only woman among the twelve Alvar poet-saints of South India, whose Tiruppavai is recited daily during Margazhi.

Andal Thermal Power Station

The Andal Thermal Power Station, officially Durgapur Steel Thermal Power Station (DSTPS), is a 1,000 MW coal-fired plant at Andal in West Bengal, India, run by the Damodar Valley Corporation.

Andala Rakshasi (ఆంధాల రాక్షసి)

Andala Rakshasi (అందాల రాక్షసి), 2012 Telugu romantic tragedy directed by Hanu Raghavapudi, debuts of Naveen Chandra and Lavanya Tripathi, produced by Sai Korrapati and S.S. Rajamouli; distinct from the 2025 Sheraz Mehdi film O Andala Rakshasi.

Ándale

Ándale is the season 3 premiere of HBO's Euphoria, written and directed by Sam Levinson, aired April 12, 2026. Set five years after season 2, it follows Rue as a drug mule in Mexico and Cassie's OnlyFans wedding plan.

Andalús Sulci

Andalús Sulci (Andalus Sulci) is a 162 km sulcus, a system of subparallel furrows and ridges, on Saturn's moon Enceladus at 29.1°N, 79.1°W, IAU-approved in 2010 and named for a city in an Arabian Nights tale.

Andalusi Arabic (العربية الأندلسية)

Andalusi Arabic (العربية الأندلسية), also called Andalusian Arabic, was the Neo-Arabic dialect bundle of Muslim Iberia (al-Andalus), the earliest extensively recorded Arabic dialect, marked by n- first-person verbs, the -an linker, and Romance and Berber contact.

Andalusi coinage

Andalusi coinage (سكة الأندلس) is the gold, silver, and copper currency of al-Andalus, beginning with a bilingual dinar in 716 and ending with the Nasrids.

Andalusi nature poetry

Andalusi nature poetry (شعر الطبيعة الأندلسي) is Arabic verse from Islamic Spain in which describing gardens, rivers, flowers, and birds became a poetic purpose in its own right.

Andalusi poetry

Andalusi poetry (الشعر الأندلسي) is the Arabic poetry of al-Andalus, Muslim-ruled Iberia, which developed from eastern models into distinctive strophic forms, the muwashshah and zajal.

Andalusi refugee influx after the fall of Granada

The Andalusi refugee influx after the fall of Granada was the mass emigration of Muslims from Iberia to North Africa, beginning after Granada surrendered in 1492.

Andalusia

Andalusia (Andalucía), Spain's southernmost autonomous community and second largest region at 87,268 km², became autonomous via the 1980 referendum and 1981 Statute, reformed by Organic Law 2/2007, with capital Seville and president Juan Manuel Moreno.

Andalusian horse

Andalusian horse, officially Pura Raza Española (PRE), Purebred Spanish Horse: a Spanish breed created by Philip II at Córdoba from 1567, studbook since 1912, distinct from the Lusitano since 1966, with the Carthusian as its only strain.

Andalusite

Andalusite is an aluminum nesosilicate mineral, Al₂SiO₅, one of three polymorphs alongside kyanite and sillimanite. It forms in metamorphosed clay-rich rocks and is used chiefly as a raw material for refractory ceramics.

Andaman and Nicobar Islands (अंडमान और निकोबार द्वीपसमूह)

Andaman and Nicobar Islands (अंडमान और निकोबार द्वीपसमूह), also called A&N Islands or ANI, an Indian union territory of 8,249 km² in the Bay of Bengal: 836 islands in two groups split by the Ten Degree Channel, capital Sri Vijaya Puram, penal-settlement and Japanese-occupation history, and five vulnerable tribal groups.

Andaman Basin

Andaman Basin: active back-arc basin in the NE Indian Ocean behind the Sunda subduction zone, extending ~1,250 km from Myanmar to Sumatra; spreading began ~4 Ma; Indian Category II frontier hydrocarbon basin with 371 MMTOE estimated resources.

Andaman Islands

The Andaman Islands is a large archipelago located in the Bay of Bengal, forming the union territory of India that encompasses the Nicobar Islands.