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AP3

AP3, formally Tredje AP-fonden (Third Swedish National Pension Fund), is a Swedish state fund managing buffer capital for the income-based old-age pension system, worth SEK 891.2 billion in June 2026.

AP300

The AP300 is a 300 MWe pressurized water small modular reactor from Westinghouse, announced in May 2023 as a scaled-down version of its licensed AP1000.

AP306

AP306 (EOS-789) is an oral first-in-class pan phosphate transporter inhibitor blocking NaPi-IIb, PiT-1, and PiT-2, developed by R1 Therapeutics and Alebund for hyperphosphatemia in dialysis patients, now in a global Phase 2b trial.

AP4

AP4, also known as Fjärde AP-fonden, is a Swedish buffer fund that invests capital backing the income pension, holding SEK 907 billion after the 2026 AP1 consolidation.

AP600

The AP600 (Advanced Passive 600) is a 600 MWestinghouse pressurized water reactor using passive safety systems like gravity and natural circulation; certified in 1999, it was never built.

AP7

AP7, or Sjunde AP-fonden, is the Swedish state fund that has managed AP7 Såfa, the premium pension default option, since 2000, holding SEK 1,529 billion at the end of 2025.

Apa Apollo

Apa Apollo (Bawit, ⲧⲟⲡⲟⲥ ⲛⲁⲡⲁ ⲁⲡⲟⲗⲗⲱ) was a large Coptic monastery in Middle Egypt, founded late 4th century by the monk Apollo, inhabited to about the 12th century, and documented by over 700 papyri.

Apa Bane, Mon.

Apa Bane, Mon. is the ancient name of the Monastery of Saint Fana (Deir Abu Fana), a Coptic monastery in Minya, Egypt, named after a fourth-century hermit.

APA Corporation

APA Corporation is a Houston-based independent oil and natural gas producer operating in the United States, Egypt, and the UK North Sea through its subsidiary Apache Corporation.

APA Group (Australia)

APA Group is an Australian energy infrastructure company, listed in 2000, owning more than $20 billion of gas pipelines, power generation, and electricity transmission assets across mainland Australia.

Apa Phoibammon (monastery)

Apa Phoibammon (Dayr Apa Phoibammon, Deir el-Bahri) was a Coptic monastery founded late sixth century by Bishop Abraham of Hermonthis atop Hatshepsut's temple at Thebes, known for legal papyri, superiors' wills, and an eighth-century child-donation healing cult.

Apa Senouthou (monastery)

Apa Senouthou monastery, the White Monastery (Dayr al-Abyad, Dayr Anba Shinudah) near Sohag, Egypt: Coptic monastery founded c. 350 by Pgol, led by Shenoute 385–465, with a fifth-century temple-like basilica church.

APA style

APA style: scholarly writing and citation guidelines from the American Psychological Association, originating in a 1929 Psychological Bulletin article, described in the 7th edition (2019) Publication Manual, using author-date citations, sold over 17 million copies, used in over 70% of US college programs.

Apabetalone

Apabetalone (RVX-208, RVX-000222) is Resverlogix's investigational BD2-selective BET protein inhibitor for atherosclerosis and diabetes; its phase 3 BETonMACE trial missed the primary MACE endpoint but reduced heart failure hospitalization.

Apabhramsha kavya

Apabhramsha kavya (अपभ्रंश काव्य) is poetry composed in Apabhramsha, the late Middle Indo-Aryan literary language between the Prakrits and modern languages like Hindi and Gujarati.

APACE study

APACE study (Advantageous Predictors of Acute Coronary Syndromes Evaluation, NCT00470587): prospective multicenter cohort by University Hospital Basel testing history, ECG, and biomarkers for rapid AMI diagnosis in chest pain.

Apache

Apache: collective name for Southern Athabaskan-speaking peoples (Western Apache, Chiricahua, Mescalero, Jicarilla, Lipan, Plains Apache), also self-designated Ndé. Migrated from the north between 1100 and 1600; reservations in New Mexico and Arizona; Oak Flat dispute ongoing.

Apache (instrumental)

Apache (instrumental): Jerry Lordan composition inspired by the 1954 film Apache; first recorded by Bert Weedon, made a five-week UK number 1 by the Shadows in 1960, and later a foundational hip-hop breakbeat via the Incredible Bongo Band.

Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow is an open-source platform for defining, scheduling, and orchestrating workflows as directed acyclic graphs, originally developed at Airbnb and now the dominant open-source workflow orchestrator.

Apache Arrow

Apache Arrow is an open-source Apache Software Foundation project, announced in 2016, defining a language-agnostic columnar in-memory data format for fast analytics and zero-copy data interchange between systems.

Apache Atlas

Apache Atlas is an Apache Software Foundation open-source metadata and data governance framework for Hadoop, offering a type system, JanusGraph graph store, Kafka integration, lineage, classification, and Ranger-driven access policies; originated in Hortonworks' 2014-2015 Data Governance Initiative.

Apache Avro

Apache Avro is a data serialization system developed by the Apache Software Foundation, created as a Hadoop subproject in 2009 by Doug Cutting and widely used with Apache Kafka.

Apache Beam

Apache Beam is an open source unified programming model for batch and streaming data pipelines, originating from Google's Dataflow SDKs donated in 2016, with SDKs in Java, Python, Go, and others and runners including Flink, Spark, and Google Cloud Dataflow.

Apache Calcite

Apache Calcite (formerly Optiq) is a dynamic data management framework: an SQL parser, validator, cost-based query optimizer, and adapter framework that powers Hive, Flink, Drill, Phoenix, Kylin, and others, without storing data itself.

Apache Camel

Apache Camel is an Apache Software Foundation open-source integration framework based on Enterprise Integration Patterns, first committed March 19, 2007 by James Strachan; routes use from().to() DSLs in Java, XML, or YAML with 300+ components.

Apache Cassandra

Apache Cassandra is an open-source, distributed NoSQL wide-column database designed at Facebook around 2008 to power Inbox Search, providing high availability, low-latency reads and writes, and scalability across commodity servers.

Apache Chief

Apache Chief is a Hanna-Barbera-created Native American superhero from the Super Friends cartoon, debuting in "The Antidote" (1977), who grows giant by saying "inuk chuk"; later reimagined as Longshadow and Tye Longshadow.

Apache Cordova

Apache Cordova, formerly PhoneGap, is an open-source framework for building native mobile apps with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, with plugins giving access to device capabilities.

Apache Crown Dance songs

Apache Crown Dance songs are the sung repertoire of the Gaan (Crown Dance) ceremony, performed to drum, usually at night, for healing, renewal, and protection.

Apache DataFusion

Apache DataFusion is an extensible Rust query engine built on the Apache Arrow in-memory format. Donated to Arrow in 2019 and an ASF top-level project since 2024, it offers SQL and DataFrame APIs plus the Ballista, Comet, Python, and Java subprojects.