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Assisted suicide in the United States
Assisted suicide, or medical aid in dying (MAID), in the United States: physician-prescribed lethal medication self-administered by terminally ill adults, legal in 13 states plus DC since Illinois joined in 2026, opposed by disability advocates.
Assistens Cemetery (Copenhagen)
Assistens Kirkegård (Assistens Cemetery), Copenhagen, Nørrebro: 1760 assistance cemetery for the poor, later fashionable; burials include H.C. Andersen, Kierkegaard, Niels Bohr; listed 2015, guaranteed until 2150.
Assistive cane
Assistive cane (walking stick, white cane): a hand-held mobility aid adding balance and off-loading one leg; single-point or quad types, fitted at wrist height, plus sensor-equipped smart canes for visually impaired users.
Assistive technology
Assistive technology: WHO umbrella term for assistive products (wheelchairs, hearing aids, spectacles, digital aids) and their services. Over 2.5 billion people need them; access ranges from 3% in some low-income to 90% in some high-income countries; governed by WHA71.8 and the 2022 WHO-UNICEF Global report.
ASSISTments
ASSISTments is a free, web-based math tutoring platform created in 2003 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute by Neil and Cristina Heffernan, with randomized-trial evidence of improving achievement.
Assita Kanko
Assita Kanko is a Belgian politician of the New Flemish Alliance, a Member of the European Parliament since 2019 and Vice-Chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group.
Assizes
The Assizes were periodic travelling courts in England and Wales, held in county towns by visiting London judges from Henry II's era (Assize of Clarendon, 1166) until the Courts Act 1971 replaced them with the Crown Court.
Assmang
Assmang is a South African mining company formed in 1935, jointly owned by Assore and African Rainbow Minerals, mining manganese at Black Rock and iron ore in the Northern Cape.
Asso pigliatutto
Asso pigliatutto (Scopa d'assi) is an Italian Scopa variant where a played Ace captures all table cards. 40-card deck, 2-4 players, Scopa scoring; whether the Ace capture scores a scopa varies by tradition.
Associação Chapecoense de Futebol
Associação Chapecoense de Futebol (Verdão do Oeste, ACF), Brazilian football club founded 10 May 1973 in Chapecó, Santa Catarina; 2016 Copa Sudamericana champion awarded after the LaMia plane crash, seven state titles, Série B champion 2020.
Associahedron
The associahedron, also called the Stasheff polytope, is a convex polytope whose vertices encode the ways of associating a product, equivalently triangulations of a convex polygon, counted by Catalan numbers.
Associate degree
Associate degree: a two-year US postsecondary credential, terminal or transfer, averaging about 70 semester hours, offered mainly by community colleges, with earnings premiums of roughly 14 to 45 percent in CTE fields.
Associate international cricket in 2026
Associate international cricket in 2026: ICC Associate Members' year, centered on the Men's T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka with nine associates including debutant Italy, plus 2028 qualification reform, board suspensions, and rankings.
Associate international cricket in 2026–27
Associate international cricket in 2026–27 covers ICC Associate Member fixtures, including the final rounds of League Two, the Challenge League, and Asia sub-regional T20 qualifiers.
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines: one of 14 members below the Chief Justice; natural-born Filipino, at least 40, 15 years' experience; appointed by the President from a JBC shortlist; serves until age 70.
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court: one of the eight non-chief members of the nine-member Court, presidentially nominated and Senate-confirmed with life tenure; 104 have served, salary $306,600 (2026).
Associate of Myc 1
Associate of Myc 1 (AMY-1, MYCBP, c-Myc-binding protein) is an 11 kDa human adaptor protein that binds the c-MYC transactivation domain, stimulates E-box transcription, modulates PKA via AKAPs, and promotes Hedgehog signaling.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, or ARP Church, is a theologically conservative Presbyterian denomination formed in Philadelphia in 1782, now concentrated in the southeastern United States.
Associated British Foods
Associated British Foods plc (ABF), British diversified food, ingredients and retail group founded 1935 by Garfield Weston; owns Primark, Twinings, British Sugar. £19.5bn revenue, 138,000 employees, 56 countries; Primark demerger planned by end 2027.
Associated Equipment Company
Associated Equipment Company (AEC) was a British vehicle manufacturer based in London that built bus and truck chassis and diesel engines from 1912 until 1979, supplying most of London's buses.
Associated graded ring
The associated graded ring, or associated graded algebra, is a graded ring built from a filtered ring's successive quotients, often turning a complicated ring into a polynomial ring.
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP), founded in 1846 by five New York newspapers, is an American not-for-profit news cooperative supplying text, photo, video, and audio news to member outlets worldwide; distinct from Reuters and AFP as a member-owned cooperative.
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
The Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) is a British trade union founded in Leeds in 1880 that represents about 96 percent of train drivers in Britain.
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen v United Kingdom
ASLEF v United Kingdom is a 2007 European Court of Human Rights ruling that UK law barred a train drivers' union from expelling a British National Party member.
Associated state
Associated state: a sovereign polity delegating foreign affairs and defense to a principal state under free association, per UN resolution 1541. Examples: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau (US); Cook Islands, Niue (New Zealand); historical West Indies Associated States.
Association des Écrivains du Sénégal
The Association des Écrivains du Sénégal (AES) is Senegal's national association for published authors, founded in 1973 at the initiative of President Léopold Sédar Senghor.
Association fallacy
The association fallacy is an informal error in reasoning that transfers a trait from one thing to another through a mere association, as in guilt by association.
Association football
Association football (soccer): 11-a-side ball game under the 17 Laws of the Game, governed by The IFAB (four British associations plus FIFA). Over 240 million players; record €38bn European market and €11.2bn top-club revenues in 2023/24.
Association football during World War I
Association football in World War I: England's 1914/15 season played under protest, then league and FA Cup suspended 1915-1919 for regional wartime competitions; Footballers' Battalion formed; women's munitionettes teams boomed before the FA's 1921 ban.
Association football during World War II
Association football during World War II: European football 1939-1945, also called wartime football. English league suspended 1939-1946, FIFA continued under Axis interference, Kiev Death Match 1942, game used for morale and propaganda.