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Ascalaphidae
Ascalaphidae (owlflies) are dragonfly-like Neuroptera with clubbed antennae, about 430–450 described species in roughly 100 genera, predaceous larvae, UV vision, and a disputed classification relative to antlions (Myrmeleontidae).
ASCALON (tank gun)
ASCALON is a smoothbore tank gun family developed by KNDS France in 120 mm and 140 mm calibers as a candidate main gun for the MGCS tank program.
Ascanio Colonna
Ascanio Colonna (1560–1608) was an Italian cardinal of the Colonna family, created cardinal in 1586 at Philip II of Spain's request, and viceroy of Aragon from 1602 to 1605.
Ascanius (crater on Dione)
Ascanius is a 98-km-wide impact crater on Dione, Saturn's icy moon, centered at 33.43°N, 232.18°W. Named for the son of Aeneas by Creusa, IAU-approved March 17, 2008, following the Aeneid naming theme for Dione craters.
Ascaphus
Ascaphus (tailed frogs) is a genus of two North American stream frogs, A. truei and A. montanus, family Ascaphidae, sister lineage to Leiopelma; males alone among frogs have a tail-like organ for internal fertilization.
Ascariasis
Ascariasis, infection by the roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides (also A. suum from pigs), the most common human helminthic infection, affecting 772–892 million people; treated with albendazole, mebendazole, or ivermectin.
Ascaris
Ascaris, a genus of large intestinal roundworms including the human giant roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides and pig roundworm Ascaris suum; causes ascariasis, the most common human helminth infection, infecting roughly 800 million people via soil-transmitted eggs.
Ascaris lumbricoides
Ascaris lumbricoides, the human large roundworm, is a soil-transmitted intestinal nematode causing ascariasis in 772-892 million people; females reach 35 cm, lay ~200,000 eggs daily, and its pig relative A. suum may be the same species.
ASCAT (scatterometer)
ASCAT (Advanced Scatterometer) is a C-band real-aperture radar instrument flying on Europe's Metop satellites that measures wind over the global ocean, chiefly for weather forecasting.
ASCE 41
ASCE 41, titled Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Existing Buildings, is an American Society of Civil Engineers standard for evaluating and strengthening existing buildings to withstand earthquakes.
ASCE 7
ASCE 7, formally Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures, is the United States loading standard for structural design, adopted into the International Building Code.
ASCEND trial
ASCEND (NCT01366209) was the 2014 phase 3 trial of pirfenidone 2403 mg/day in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; it met its FVC primary endpoint and, pooled with CAPACITY, showed 48% lower 1-year mortality.
Ascend.io
Ascend.io, also written Ascend (legal name Ascension Labs), is a Palo Alto company founded in 2015 by Sean Knapp selling the Agentic Data Engineering platform with the Otto AI agent, pushdown execution on BigQuery, Databricks, and Snowflake, and $50M raised to Series B.
Ascendance of a Bookworm (本好きの下剋上)
Ascendance of a Bookworm (本好きの下剋上) is Miya Kazuki's isekai light novel series from TO Books, begun as a 2013 web novel, about a reborn book lover making books in a medieval world; 15 million copies, four anime seasons, J-Novel Club English edition.
Ascendancy (music)
Ascendancy is the second studio album by American heavy metal band Trivium, released in March 2005 on Roadrunner Records. It became the band's breakthrough, certified UK Gold in 2006.
Ascendant
In astrology the ascendant, or rising sign (Sanskrit: lagna), is the ecliptic degree rising above the eastern horizon at birth, the starting point of the horoscope.
Ascendant Capital Partners
Ascendant Capital Partners LP is a real estate private equity investment manager based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2019 by Russell Gimelstob, Alexander Halpern, and Joseph Eric Calder.
Ascended master
An ascended master is a being in certain esoteric religions who has overcome death and guides humanity, a concept created by Guy and Edna Ballard in the 1930s.
Ascending aorta
Ascending aorta: first aortic segment from the left ventricle to about T4, ~3.5 cm wide, coronary arteries from its sinuses; aneurysm surgery at 5.0-5.5 cm, Bentall or valve-sparing repair.
Ascending cholangitis
Ascending cholangitis, also called acute cholangitis, is a bacterial infection of the biliary system, typically caused by common bile duct obstruction and potentially leading to sepsis.
Ascending Technologies
Ascending Technologies, known as AscTec, was a German manufacturer of professional multicopters and autopilot systems near Munich, founded in 2007 and acquired by Intel in January 2016.
Asceneuron
Asceneuron SA is a Swiss clinical-stage biotechnology company in Lausanne, founded in 2012 as a spin-out from Merck Serono, developing oral OGA inhibitors against tau aggregation in Alzheimer's; its lead candidate is ASN51.
Ascension (miniseries)
Ascension is a 2014 Syfy six-hour science fiction miniseries created by Philip Levens and Adrian Cruz, about a covert 1963 generation-ship mission whose colonists discover the voyage is an Earth-based experiment; it ended unresolved after three nights.
Ascension (Paradise Lost album)
Ascension is Paradise Lost's 17th studio album, released September 19, 2025 on Nuclear Blast, its first in five years after Obsidian, produced by Gregor Mackintosh, with UK chart peak No. 54 and Metal Hammer ranking it 12th of 2025.
Ascension Island
Ascension Island, in the UK Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, is a volcanic South Atlantic island discovered in 1501, garrisoned by Britain in 1815 as HMS Ascension, with no permanent population and a 2019 EEZ-wide marine protected area.
Ascension of Isaiah
The Ascension of Isaiah is an early Christian pseudepigraphic apocalypse of the second century CE, describing Isaiah's martyrdom and his visionary tour of the seven heavens.
Ascension of Jesus
The Ascension of Jesus, also known as the Ascension of the Lord, is the Christian belief that the risen Christ was taken up into heaven, commemorated on Ascension Day.
Ascenso MX
Ascenso MX was the name of Mexico's second-tier soccer league from 2012 to 2020, successor to Primera División 'A' and Liga de Ascenso and predecessor of Liga de Expansión MX, whose promotion to Liga MX was suspended in 2020.
ASCENT (propellant)
ASCENT (Advanced Spacecraft Energetic Non-Toxic), formerly AF-M315E, is a hydroxylammonium nitrate green monopropellant developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory as a higher-performance hydrazine replacement.
Ascent Resources
Ascent Resources is a privately held American exploration and production company in Oklahoma City that develops Utica Shale natural gas in Ohio, the state's largest gas producer.