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Anti (album)
Anti (ANTI), Rihanna's eighth studio album, released January 27, 2016 on Westbury Road/Roc Nation; minimalist pop/R&B departure, Samsung-funded free Tidal release, Work her 14th US number one, first Black artist album with ten years on the Billboard 200.
Anti World Tour
Anti World Tour: Rihanna's 2016 concert tour promoting the album Anti, presented by Samsung, with Travis Scott, The Weeknd, and Big Sean; about 71 shows, $110 million gross.
Anti-abortion violence
Anti-abortion violence: murders, bombings, arsons, clinic invasions, and harassment targeting US abortion providers since the 1970s; 11 murders and 42 bombings since 1977, addressed by the 1994 FACE Act.
Anti-African sentiment
Anti-African sentiment, also called Afrophobia, is prejudice and discrimination against Africans, people of African descent, and African migrants, rooted in slavery and colonialism, documented by UN bodies, and addressed through reparations and anti-racism frameworks.
Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division (зенитная артиллерийская дивизия) (Soviet Union)
The Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division (зенитная артиллерийская дивизизия) was a Soviet Red Army formation created by NKO Order No. 00226 in October 1942, with 18 divisions raised by year's end.
Anti-aircraft artillery formations of the People's Liberation Army
The anti-aircraft artillery formations of the People's Liberation Army are gun and missile units protecting Chinese ground forces from air attack, first organized as divisions in 1950.
Anti-aircraft formations of the British Dominions and Commonwealth
Anti-aircraft formations of the British Dominions and Commonwealth were heavy and light AA regiments raised by New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and India during World War II.
Anti-aircraft warfare
Anti-aircraft warfare, also known as ack-ack, is the set of defensive measures against attacking aircraft and missiles, dating to an 1870 Prussian weapon and now spanning sensors, interceptors, and command networks.
Anti-aliasing
Anti-aliasing: rendering methods that reduce jagged edges, shimmering, and moiré from undersampled graphics. Covers SSAA, MSAA, FXAA/SMAA, TAA, and AI upscalers DLSS, FSR, XeSS, with costs, artifacts, and API controls.
Anti-aliasing filter
An anti-aliasing filter is a lowpass filter placed ahead of a sampler, such as an ADC, that attenuates frequencies above the Nyquist rate so they cannot alias into the band of interest.
Anti-Americanism
Anti-Americanism is hostility toward the United States, its policies, culture, or people, measured mainly through surveys like Pew's Global Attitudes Project. Key figures: the 2003 Iraq War collapse in favorability and the sharp 2025 decline under Trump.
Anti-Apartheid Movement
The British Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM), 1959–1994, campaigned through boycotts, sanctions, sports embargoes, and prisoner campaigns to isolate apartheid South Africa; founded from the 1959 boycott committee, renamed after Sharpeville in 1960, its archive is at Oxford's Bodleian Library.
Anti-Atlas
The Anti-Atlas is a 600-plus-km ENE-trending mountain range in southern Morocco on the northern edge of the West African Craton, reaching 3305 m at Jbel Sirwa, shaped by Pan-African, Variscan, and Cenozoic events plus mantle-driven uplift.
Anti-ballistic missile
An anti-ballistic missile (ABM) is a missile, or larger system, designed to intercept and destroy an incoming ballistic missile or warhead in flight, typically by hit-to-kill collision.
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty), signed May 26, 1972 by Nixon and Brezhnev, limited US and Soviet strategic missile defenses to one 100-interceptor site each; the US withdrew effective June 13, 2002.
Anti-Barney humor
Anti-Barney humor is parody and satire targeting Barney the Dinosaur of Barney & Friends (PBS, 1992-2010), from the 'I hate you, you hate me' schoolyard song to San Diego Chicken sketches, the I Hate Barney Songbook album, and the Lyons Partnership parody lawsuit.
Anti-BDS laws
Anti-BDS laws are U.S. state and federal measures, first enacted in 2015, that condition government contracts and public investments on not boycotting Israel or Israeli-controlled territories, in contract-focused and investment-focused forms, and have faced First Amendment challenges with mixed results.
Anti-Black racism in the Arab world
Anti-Black racism in the Arab world: prejudice against Black people in Arabic-speaking MENA societies, rooted in precolonial slavery and ninth-century race-thinking, examined via Arab Barometer surveys, Kadhem's 2004 study, and the Arab-Islamic slavery terminology debate.
Anti-bureaucratic revolution
The anti-bureaucratic revolution (Serbian: Antibirokratska revolucija) was a campaign of street protests from 1987 to 1989 by supporters of Slobodan Milošević that replaced the leaderships of Vojvodina, Kosovo, and Montenegro with his allies.
Anti-cancer drugs
Anti-cancer drugs (antineoplastic agents) treat cancer via cytotoxic chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, kinase inhibitors, antibodies, and immunotherapy; from 1940s nitrogen mustard to imatinib and pembrolizumab. Also a peer-reviewed journal (ISSN 0959-4973) since 1990.
Anti-capitalism
Anti-capitalism: opposition to capitalism as defined by private ownership of the means of production and market allocation. Also called anti-globalisation in its 1990s form; currents include Marxism, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, and social democracy.
Anti-Catholicism
Anti-Catholicism is hostility, discrimination, or polemic directed at Catholics, spanning four centuries of legal exclusion, riots, and conspiracy claims in Britain, Ireland, and the United States.
Anti-Catholicism in the United States
Anti-Catholicism in the United States: hostility to Catholic faith and loyalty from colonial New England through the Know Nothing Party, Blaine Amendment, and modern attitudes.
Anti-centromere antibodies
Anti-centromere antibodies (ACA, anti-CENP-B) are autoantibodies marking limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis (CREST syndrome), discovered in 1980; found in 20–40% of SSc patients and rarely in healthy people.
Anti-Chinese sentiment
Anti-Chinese sentiment, also called Sinophobia, is hostility toward Chinese people or China, spanning the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, COVID-19-era anti-Asian hate crimes, and spillover discrimination against Asian Americans.
Anti-circumvention
Anti-circumvention is copyright law that prohibits bypassing technological protection measures on copyrighted works and trafficking in circumvention tools, codified in US law as section 1201 of the 1998 DMCA.
Anti-clericalism
Anti-clericalism is opposition to the clergy's institutional power in politics, education, and government, not belief itself. Key episodes: the French Revolution's Civil Constitution of the Clergy, the Third Republic's Ferry laws and 1905 separation law, Spain, Italy, and Mexico.
Anti-Comintern Pact
Anti-Comintern Pact (Antikominternpakt): 1936 Berlin agreement between Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan against the Communist International, effectively aimed at the USSR; joined by Italy in 1937 and precursory to the Axis.
Anti-communism
Anti-communism is active opposition to communism and communists, treated by scholars as a quasi-ideology in its own right. It shaped twentieth-century politics and peaked during the Cold War of 1947 to 1989.
Anti-corrosion coating
An anti-corrosion coating is a layer of paint, polymer, metal, ceramic, or nanomaterial applied to a metal surface to slow or prevent corrosion by blocking moisture and oxygen.