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ASCOD

ASCOD (ASCOD AFV), short for Austrian-Spanish Cooperative Development, is a family of tracked armored fighting vehicles used by Spain, Austria, the Philippines, and Latvia, with over 1,000 vehicles contracted.

ASCOD 2

The ASCOD 2 is the second generation of the ASCOD family of tracked armored fighting vehicles, serving as the base for the British Ajax and Latvia's Hunter.

Ascomycota

Ascomycota, the sac fungi or ascomycetes, is the largest fungal phylum, defined by sexual spores formed inside an ascus. Three subphyla: Taphrinomycotina, Saccharomycotina, Pezizomycotina; sister group Basidiomycota; Devonian fossil record.

Sep 29, 2026

Ascon (cipher)

Ascon is a family of lightweight authenticated-encryption and hashing algorithms designed for constrained devices and selected by NIST for standardization in 2023, with the final standard SP 800-232 published in August 2025.

Ascophyllum nodosum

Ascophyllum nodosum (knotted wrack, egg wrack, rockweed) is a North Atlantic brown fucoid seaweed of sheltered intertidal rocks, harvested for alginates, seaweed meal, fertilizers, and biostimulants.

Ascorbate cofactor metabolism

Ascorbate cofactor metabolism is the use of vitamin C as a consumable redox cofactor for copper-dependent monooxygenases and iron-dependent dioxygenases, which cells maintain by recycling its oxidized forms.

ASCORDIA01 trial

ASCORDIA01 (NCT02664597) is a French randomized diagnostic trial, coordinated by Isabelle Thomassin-Naggara, testing whether ADNEX MR score-guided management of sonographically indeterminate adnexal masses reduces inappropriate surgery versus routine care.

Ascospore

Ascospores are the sexual spores of Ascomycota fungi, formed after meiosis inside asci, typically four or eight per ascus, with stress-resistant walls and forcible discharge exceeding 30 m/s.

Ascot Gold Cup

Gold Cup (Ascot Gold Cup): Group 1 flat race at Royal Ascot over 2m3f210y for horses aged four and older, first run 1807; record winners Yeats (4), jockey Lester Piggott (11), trainer Aidan O'Brien (10).

Ascot Racecourse

Ascot Racecourse, founded by Queen Anne in 1711 in Berkshire, England, hosts Royal Ascot each June plus 26 race days yearly; a right-handed triangular round course, straight mile, 2006 £200m grandstand, and £264.5m UK economic impact.

Ascot tie

Ascot tie: a broad, scarf-like necktie with wide square or pointed ends, pinned over the shirtfront, named after Ascot Heath racecourse; popular from the 1880s, worn with morning dress, distinct from the casual day cravat also called an ascot.

Ascraeus Chasmata

Ascraeus Chasmata is an IAU-named (1991) chasma of collapsed pit-crater terrain on the southwest flank of Ascraeus Mons, Mars, centered near 8.7N, 105.7W, about 110 km across per USGS.

Ascraeus Mons

Ascraeus Mons: large shield volcano on Mars, northernmost of the three Tharsis Montes (with Pavonis and Arsia Mons), about 460 km wide with an 18 km summit, second only to Olympus Mons in height.

Oct 20, 2026

Ascraeus Sulci

Ascraeus Sulci is an IAU-named region of ridges (sulci) on the western lower slopes of Ascraeus Mons in Mars' Tharsis region, approved 1991 as a classical albedo name, centered near 12°N 108.8°W and usually interpreted as glacial or landslide terrain.

Ascuris Planum

Ascuris Planum is a 617.66-km-wide high plain on Mars at 40.59N, 279.22E, IAU-approved in 1991 as a classical albedo name, in Tempe Terra northeast of Tharsis, known for its horst and graben tectonic terrain.

Sep 19, 2026

ASD

ASD (爱仕达) is a Chinese manufacturer of kitchen cookware and small appliances headquartered in Wenling, Zhejiang, founded by Chen Helin, which also makes industrial robots and trades on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

Asd RNA motif

Asd (aSD) RNA motif: the anti-Shine-Dalgarno sequence, a conserved CCUCC core at the 3' end of bacterial 16S rRNA that pairs with Shine-Dalgarno mRNA sequences to initiate translation, pauses elongating ribosomes, and varies across species.

Asd-4/GZF3-like, helical region

Asd-4/GZF3-like, helical region (InterPro IPR056998; Pfam PF25026 Asd-4) is a conserved region of fungal GATA transcription factors such as Neurospora ASD4 and yeast Gzf3p, negative regulators of nitrogen catabolic gene expression.

Asda

Asda (Asda Stores Ltd) is a British supermarket retailer founded in 1965 from the Asquith brothers' Queens supermarkets and Associated Dairies, headquartered in Leeds, owned since 2024 mainly by TDR Capital, with about 11.5% UK grocery market share.

ASDE-X

ASDE-X, short for Airport Surface Detection Equipment Model X, is an FAA system combining radar, multilateration, and ADS-B to track aircraft and vehicles on airport surfaces and warn of runway conflicts.

ASDEX

ASDEX, short for Axially Symmetric Divertor EXperiment, was a tokamak at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching, Germany, operating from 1980 to 1990.

ASDEX Upgrade

ASDEX Upgrade is a divertor tokamak at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching, Germany, operating since 1991 as a testbed for the ITER fusion reactor.

Oct 3, 2026

asdfmovie

asdfmovie ("ass-duff") is a British animated sketch comedy YouTube series by TomSka (Thomas Ridgewell), begun August 10, 2008 from his asdfman webcomic; 16 episodes of seconds-long absurd gags, spinoff songs, a comic book, and card games.

Oct 22, 2026

Asdreni

Asdreni, pen name of Aleksandër Stavre Drenova (1872–1947), was an Albanian poet who wrote the lyrics of the Albanian national anthem and spent most of his life in exile in Romania.

ASE (submarine cable system)

ASE, or Asia Submarine-cable Express, is a submarine cable system connecting Japan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore, built by NTT Communications and partners in 2012.

ASE conference

The ASE conference, formally the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, is an annual academic conference on automating software engineering, held since 1989 and rated A.

ASE Group

ASE Group, also known as Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, is a Taiwanese semiconductor packaging, testing, and electronic manufacturing business grouped under ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd., formed in 2018.

Asea

Asea (Ασέα) was an ancient Greek city-state in a mountain valley of Arcadia, in the central Peloponnese, between Tegea and Megalopolis, independent from the 6th to the 3rd century BC.

Asea Vigla

Asea Vigla, Arcadian sanctuary on Mount Boreion near Asea, Greece; two superimposed Archaic temples, the later a marble Doric peripteros of c. 520-510 BC, identified with Pausanias' Temple of Athena Soteira and Poseidon.