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Anshan
Anshan (Elamite Anzan, Anšan) was an ancient Elamite city in the highlands of southwestern Iran, identified with Tal-e Malyan in Fars province and serving as Elam's highland capital.
Anshar
Anshar (Anšar), with Kishar, is a primordial Mesopotamian god pair from Enūma eliš, meaning 'entirety of heavens' and 'entirety of earth'; parents of Anu, later equated with the Assyrian god Ashur.
Anshar Sulcus
Anshar Sulcus is a 1,372-km-wide grooved-terrain feature (sulcus) on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, in Marius Regio, named in 1979 from Assyro-Babylonian myth; a 2023 study found it formed by strike-slip faulting followed by crustal spreading.
Anshu Jain
Anshu Jain (1963–2022) was an Indian-born investment banker who built Deutsche Bank's markets business into a global trading powerhouse and served as its co-CEO from 2012 to 2015.
Anshuman Jha (अंशुमान झा)
Anshuman Jha (अंशुमान झा), born 1985 in Allahabad, is an Indian actor, producer, and director known for Love Sex Aur Dhokha (2010), Lakadbaggha (2023), and his directorial debut Lord Curzon Ki Haveli (2025) under First Ray Films.
Anshun
Anshun (安顺) is a prefecture-level city in central Guizhou, China, approved in 2000, with 2.69 million people, 39 percent ethnic minorities, and the Huangguoshu Waterfall, a 77.8 m karst waterfall on China's UNESCO Tentative List.
Anshun power station
Anshun power station (安顺发电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Puding, Guizhou, China, with four 300 MW units, opened in 1998 and 2003, supplying power to Guangdong Province.
ANSI C
ANSI C, also known as Standard C or ISO C, is the standardized C programming language, first ratified in 1989 as ANSI X3.159-1989 and later maintained as ISO/IEC 9899.
ANSI device numbers
ANSI device numbers are the numeric codes defined by IEEE C37.2 that identify the functions of protective relays and circuit breakers on electrical power system drawings.
ANSI escape code
ANSI escape code, also known as ECMA-48 or ANSI X3.64, is an in-band control sequence in a terminal's text stream that changes display or behavior instead of printing characters.
ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 55
ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 55, Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy, is an American National Standard specifying temperature, humidity, radiation, air speed, clothing, and activity combinations acceptable to most occupants, first published in 1966.
ANSI/TIA-568
ANSI/TIA-568 is a family of American National Standards developed by the Telecommunications Industry Association that specifies structured cabling for telecommunications in commercial buildings, covering copper, optical fiber, and coaxial media.
ANSI/TIA-942
ANSI/TIA-942 is an American National Standard, titled Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers, that specifies minimum data center infrastructure requirements; first published in 2005, its current Revision C appeared in 2024.
Ansible
The ansible is Ursula K. Le Guin's fictional faster-than-light communicator, coined in Rocannon's World (1966) from "answerable" and explained in The Dispossessed; later adopted by Card, Moon, Vinge, and others.
Ansible (software)
Ansible is an open-source IT automation tool that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment through agentless SSH connections and YAML playbooks, acquired by Red Hat in 2015.
Ansignan aqueduct
The Ansignan aqueduct (pont-aqueduc d'Ansignan) is a 170 m, 29-arch bridge-aqueduct over the Agly in Pyrénées-Orientales, France, dated 220-270 CE in its oldest parts, still irrigating land, classified since 1974, and restored under the 2023 Mission patrimoine.
Ansley J. Coale
Ansley J. Coale (Ansley Johnson Coale, 1917–2002) was an American demographer who spent his career at Princeton, directing the European Fertility Project and creating the Coale–Demeny model life tables.
Ansmann
Ansmann (ANSMANN AG) is a German family-owned battery and charging-technology company headquartered in Assamstadt, Baden-Württemberg. Founded by Edgar Ansmann in 1991, it employs over 400 people worldwide.
Ansoff matrix
The Ansoff matrix is a two-by-two business strategy tool described by Igor Ansoff in 1957, naming four growth strategies: market penetration, market development, product development, and diversification.
Anson Carter
Anson Carter, born 1974, Toronto, is a Canadian former NHL right wing (674 games, 421 points, 2003 world gold-medal goal) now an NHL on TNT analyst and NHL Player Inclusion Coalition co-chair.
Anson Mount
Anson Mount (Anson Adams Mount IV, born 1973) is an American actor known for Cullen Bohannon in AMC's Hell on Wheels, Black Bolt in Marvel's Inhumans, and Captain Christopher Pike in Star Trek: Discovery and Strange New Worlds. MFA from Columbia, 1998.
Anson Williams
Anson Williams (Anson William Heimlich, born 1949) is the American actor who played Potsie Weber on all 11 seasons of Happy Days, later a prolific TV director of over 300 shows and second cousin of Henry Heimlich.
Ansonia
Ansonia (stream toads) is a genus of 38 bufonid toad species from Thailand, Myanmar, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and Mindanao, with torrent-adapted tadpoles and Pelophryne as sister genus.
Anssi Auvinen
Anssi Auvinen is a Finnish physician-epidemiologist, professor of epidemiology at Tampere University since 2000 and research professor at the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, known for prostate-cancer screening and radiation health research.
Anssi Paasi
Anssi Paasi is a Finnish geographer, emeritus professor at the University of Oulu, known for his theory of the institutionalization of regions and work on borders and territoriality.
Ansteel Group
Ansteel Group Corporation Limited (鞍钢集团有限公司) is a Chinese state-owned steelmaker controlled by SASAC and headquartered in Anshan, Liaoning. It produced 59.55 million tonnes of crude steel in 2024, ranking third in the world.
Ansu Fati
Ansu Fati, Spanish forward born in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau; La Masia graduate and Barcelona record-setting teenage scorer; after a Brighton loan and knee injuries, signed permanently for AS Monaco in 2026 until 2030.
Ansu Satpathy
Ansuman (Ansu) Satpathy is an American physician-scientist and Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology at Stanford who co-founded Cartography Biosciences, Immunai, Santa Ana Bio, and Prox Biosciences.
Ansud
Ansud, also written Ansub or Hanusu, was an Early Dynastic king of Mari on the middle Euphrates, roughly contemporary with Mesannepada of Ur and known from short excavated inscriptions.
Ansuman T. Satpathy
Ansuman T. Satpathy, also published as Ansuman Satpathy, is a physician-scientist and associate professor of pathology and immunology at Stanford University working in cancer immunology.