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Assetto Corsa
Assetto Corsa: 2014 Kunos Simulazioni PC racing simulator (Steam Early Access 2013), laser-scanned circuits, advanced tyre model, huge modding scene, 20M+ franchise users; sibling title Assetto Corsa Competizione.
Assetto Corsa Rally
Assetto Corsa Rally (ACR) is a rally simulation by Supernova Games Studios with Kunos Simulazioni, published by 505 Games, in Steam Early Access since November 13, 2025; first rally game with laser-scanned stages, Unreal Engine 5 rendering, Assetto Corsa Evo physics.
AssetWatch
AssetWatch, formerly Nikola Labs, is a Westerville, Ohio company founded in 2014 that sells AI-powered sensors and analyst review to catch factory equipment problems before machines fail.
Asshole
Asshole (British arsehole) is a vulgar English word for the anus and, since the mid-20th century, a common insult for a contemptible person; Middle English arshole, analyzed by Nunberg's Ascent of the A-Word.
Assi (film)
Assi (अस्सी) is a 2026 Hindi-language courtroom drama directed by Anubhav Sinha, starring Taapsee Pannu and Kani Kusruti, about a Delhi schoolteacher's gang-rape trial; the title means 80, from India's daily rape-case statistics.
Assi El Hellani
Assi El Hellani (عاصي الحلاني) is a Lebanese singer, nicknamed the Knight of the Arab Song, known for dabke and hawara singing and for coaching on MBC's The Voice.
Assia Djebar
Assia Djebar (1936–2015), pen name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayène, was an Algerian novelist and filmmaker who wrote on Algerian women and in 2005 became the first North African member of the Académie française.
Assia Wevill
Assia Esther Wevill (1927–1969), German-born copywriter, poet, and translator of Yehuda Amichai; Ted Hughes's partner after Sylvia Plath; died with their daughter Shura by gas in London in 1969.
Assicurazioni Generali
Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A., known as the Generali Group, is an Italian insurance group founded in Trieste in 1831, serving 75 million customers with more than 88 thousand employees.
Assignation Bank
The Assignation Bank (Ассигнационный банк) was the state bank of the Russian Empire, founded by Catherine II in 1769 to issue the assignats, Russia's first paper money.
Assignment (law)
Assignment (law): transfer by an assignor of rights, property, or benefits to an assignee in contract and property law; distinct from delegation of duties and from novation, which requires all parties' consent.
Assignment algorithm
An assignment algorithm solves the linear assignment problem: given an n by n cost matrix of agents and tasks, it finds the minimum-cost one-to-one pairing, classically via Kuhn's 1955 Hungarian method.
Assignment problem
The assignment problem, also called the linear assignment problem, is a combinatorial optimization problem: assign n workers to n jobs one-to-one at least total cost.
Assignment: Earth
"Assignment: Earth" (1968) is the Star Trek: The Original Series second-season finale, a backdoor pilot for an unproduced Gary Seven spin-off by Gene Roddenberry and Art Wallace, starring Robert Lansing and Teri Garr, in which the Enterprise visits 1968.
Assimi Goïta
Assimi Goïta (born 1983) is Mali's army general and President of the Transition since June 2021, leader of the CNSP junta, author of the August 2020 and May 2021 coups, aligned with Russia's Wagner Group and Africa Corps.
Assimilation (phonology)
Assimilation (phonology): a process making a speech sound more like a neighboring sound, also called feature spreading or coarticulation. Covers progressive, regressive, and coalescent directions; place, manner, and voicing types; gradient versus categorical behavior; and listener-based accounts of sound change.
Assin
Assin (also Asen) is an Akan state and people of Ghana's Central Region, whose traditions trace their movement from the Ashanti Kingdom; it was displaced by Denkyira in the 1690s.
Assiniboine
The Assiniboine River is a large prairie river rising in eastern Saskatchewan and flowing through Brandon and Portage la Prairie to join the Red River at Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Assisi
Assisi, Umbrian hill town in Perugia province, Italy; birthplace of Saint Francis and UNESCO World Heritage site since 2000. Key facts: Roman municipium 89 BCE, 1997 Basilica earthquake, 1.7 million tourists in 2025, 2026 relic ostension.
Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites
Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites: UNESCO World Heritage property (inscribed 2000, dossier 990) in Umbria, Italy, birthplace of Saint Francis (1182-1226), covering 14,563.25 ha with the basilica, Santa Chiara, Carceri, San Damiano, and Santa Maria degli Angeli.
Assist (basketball)
Assist (basketball): a pass leading directly to a made field goal, credited to the passer. Also called dime. NBA rule requires immediate reaction toward the basket; John Stockton holds the all-time record with 9,922.
Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris
Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), the public university hospital center (CHU) of Île-de-France: 38 hospitals, about 8 million patients yearly, 100,000 staff, six GHU groups, founded 1849, Europe's largest CHU.
Assistant commandant
Assistant commandant is the entry Group A gazetted officer rank of India's CAPFs (BSF, CRPF, CISF, ITBP, SSB), recruited via the UPSC CAPF exam, commanding a 135-person company at pay Level 10.
Assistant director
Assistant director (AD) is a film and TV crew role, graded 1st, 2nd, 3rd AD, that plans the shooting schedule, runs the set, and manages safety, distinct from a director's assistant and from an organizational deputy director.
Assisted Circulation
Assisted Circulation (Circulation, Assisted) is the MeSH term for pumping that aids the natural heart, spanning temporary devices like the IABP, Impella, and VA-ECMO and durable ventricular assist devices used as bridge to transplant or destination therapy.
Assisted evolution
Assisted evolution (human-assisted evolution) accelerates natural evolutionary processes, mainly in corals, via selective breeding, stress preconditioning, and symbiont manipulation to build climate resilience; still early R&D, with physiological and genetic risks and gains unlikely to keep pace with warming.
Assisted Human Reproduction Act
Assisted Human Reproduction Act (AHR Act), S.C. 2004, c. 2: Canadian federal statute assented to March 29, 2004, prohibiting human cloning, paid surrogacy, and trade in gametes and embryos, reshaped by the 2010 SCC Reference and 2012 repeals, with Health Canada enforcing safety, consent, and reimbursement regulations.
Assisted living
Assisted living: residential long-term care offering housing, help with daily activities, and some health care for seniors and people with disabilities; state-regulated, no federal rules, 44,638 US facilities, Medicaid covers services in 44 states.
Assisted reproductive technology
Assisted reproductive technology (ART), chiefly in vitro fertilization (IVF) and ICSI, handles eggs or embryos outside the body to achieve pregnancy; excludes IUI. First IVF baby 1978; over 4 million IVF babies; live birth rates 8–31% per fresh transfer in the UK.
Assisted suicide
Assisted suicide, also known as physician-assisted suicide, is the practice of helping another person end their own life, usually by providing prescribed medical substances; it differs from euthanasia because patients self-administer.