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Anser
Anser is a genus of geese in Anatidae established by Brisson in 1760, with the greylag goose Anser anser as type species; it includes white geese (formerly Chen) and ancestors of domestic geese.
Anser albifrons
Anser albifrons, the greater white-fronted goose, is a stocky brown goose with a white patch at the bill base, breeding across Arctic tundra of North America and Eurasia.
Anser fabalis
Anser fabalis, the taiga bean goose (Saatgans), is a migratory grey goose of northern Eurasia, 65–90 cm long, split from tundra bean goose A. serrirostris in 2007; declining in Europe, increasing in East Asia.
Anseriformes
Anseriformes, the waterfowl order (ducks, geese, swans, screamers, magpie goose), is a bird order of three families and 161 species, sister to Galliformes in Galloanserae, with a Cretaceous fossil history.
Ansett Australia
Ansett Australia was a major Australian airline founded by Sir Reginald Ansett in 1936 and one of the country's two dominant domestic carriers until its 2001 collapse.
Anseung
Anseung (안승), also recorded as Ansun, was a Goguryeo royal claimant enthroned in 670 by Geommojam, then King of Bodeok over a refugee polity at Iksan under Silla.
Ansgar
Ansgar, also Anskar or Anschar, was a Benedictine monk of Corbie who preached to the Danes and Swedes, became the first archbishop of Hamburg, and died in 865.
Ansgar Wessling
Ansgar Wessling, born 1961 in Essen, is a retired German rower who won Olympic gold in the men's eight for West Germany at Seoul 1988 and bronze for unified Germany at Barcelona 1992, plus world titles in 1989 and 1991.
Ansgarius (lunar crater)
Ansgarius is a 91.42 km Imbrian-age impact crater on the Moon at 12.92°S, 79.72°E, named for St. Ansgar (IAU 1935), marking the outermost ring crest of the Smythii basin.
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.