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Audrey Wood
Audrey Wood, born 1927, is a British businesswoman who co-founded Oxford Instruments in Oxford in 1959 with her husband Sir Martin Wood, running its administration and finance.
Audrie & Daisy
Audrie & Daisy is a 2016 documentary by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk about Audrie Pott and Daisy Coleman, teens sexually assaulted and cyberbullied; it premiered at Sundance, streamed on Netflix, and won a 2016 Peabody Award.
Audrina Patridge
Audrina Patridge, born 1985, is an American reality TV personality and model, an original cast member of MTV's The Hills (2006–2010) and its 2019 revival, and star of the 2011 VH1 series Audrina.
Audubon Ballroom
The Audubon Ballroom, also called William Fox Audubon Theater or San Juan Theater, was a 1912 Broadway theater and ballroom in Washington Heights where Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965; partly preserved in 1990, it now houses the Shabazz Memorial Center.
Audun Boysen
Audun Boysen (1929–2000), Norwegian middle-distance runner; 800 m Olympic bronze 1956, three 1000 m world records, and a 1:45.9 Norwegian 800 m record that stood 37 years.
Audy
Audy, full name Paula Allodya Item and usually credited as Audy Item, is an Indonesian pop singer born in 1983 who broke through with the cover song "Satu Jam Saja".
Audy Item
Audy Item (Paula Allodya Item), Indonesian pop singer born 1983 in Jakarta, daughter of jazz musician Jopie Item; debuted with Satu Jam Saja, released albums 18 and The Best of Audy 17, married actor Iko Uwais, and returned to music in 2022 and 2025.
Auerbach Consultants
Auerbach Consultants was a computer consulting firm founded in 1976 by Isaac L. Auerbach, an American computer pioneer who led it until his death in 1992.
Auf achse
Auf Achse is Wolfgang Kramer's 1987 trucking logistics board game, Spiel des Jahres winner, for 2-6 players, with contract auctions, dice movement, and over 900,000 copies sold in German-speaking countries.
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet: British comedy-drama (1983–2004) by Franc Roddam, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais about seven unemployed British builders working in Düsseldorf; ITV hit, BBC revival.
Aufbau (Zeitschrift)
Aufbau was a German-language cultural-political monthly magazine published in Berlin from 1945 to 1958 by the Aufbau-Verlag for the Kulturbund, with Klaus Gysi as its first editor.
Aufbau principle
The aufbau principle, or building-up principle, is the rule that electrons fill atomic orbitals in order of increasing energy, explaining the periodic table's structure.
Aufeis
Aufeis, also called icing or naled, is layered ice formed when groundwater overflows onto frozen ground or river ice and freezes, sometimes several meters thick, as in Siberia.
Aufidena
Aufidena: ancient Samnite town of the Pentri (once attributed to the Caraceni) in the upper Sangro valley, Italy; Samnite settlement at Alfedena, Roman municipium at Castel di Sangro; captured by Rome in 298 BC.
Aufidena/Aufinum
Aufidena/Aufinum: Aufidena, a major Samnite town of the Pentri in the Sangro valley (Alfedena/Castel di Sangro, Abruzzo), conquered by Rome in 298 BC and later a municipium; Aufinum, a distinct praefectura of the Vestini cismontani.
Aufidus Catena
Aufidus Catena is an IAU-named crater chain (catena) on Dione, Saturn's fourth largest moon, named for the Apulian river now called the Ofanto; it also designates the Sd-15 quadrangle of the Cassini Dione atlas.
Aufinum
Aufinum (Aufinun), ancient Vestini settlement and Roman municipium near Capestrano, Abruzzo, at Colle Sant'Antonino; listed by Pliny as Aufinates Cismontani; site of the necropolis yielding the Warrior of Capestrano, excavated since 2003 by the University of Chieti-Pescara.
Augean Robotics, Inc.
Augean Robotics, Inc., doing business as Burro, is a Philadelphia-based agricultural robotics company. Its autonomous cart follows workers, carries harvested produce, and has been sold to over 550 farms.
Augemmi
Augemmi (also Auzemmi, Augarmi, Agarmi) was a Roman road station 41 miles from Tacape (Gabès) on the military road toward the Lesser Syrte in Africa Proconsularis; its exact site, proposed as Kouetin, Ksar Medenine, or Henchir Kredema, remains uncertain.
Auger decay
Auger decay, increasingly called Auger–Meitner decay, is a non-radiative relaxation process in which one electron fills an atom's inner-shell vacancy and a second is emitted.
Auger effect
The Auger effect, observed by Pierre Auger in 1925, ejects an electron from an atom as an outer electron fills an inner-shell vacancy instead of emitting an X-ray.
Auger electron spectroscopy
Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) is a surface-analysis technique that bombards a solid surface with electrons and measures emitted Auger electrons to identify elements in the outermost 2 to 10 nanometers.
Auger Engineering Radio Array
The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) is an array of more than 150 autonomous radio antenna stations at the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina that detects cosmic-ray air showers.
Auger recombination
Auger recombination is a non-radiative process in semiconductors in which an electron-hole pair's recombination energy is transferred to a third carrier instead of being emitted as light.
AugerPrime
AugerPrime is the upgrade of the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina, adding scintillator, radio, and underground muon detectors to measure the mass of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.
Augie Garrido
Augie Garrido (1939-2018), American college baseball coach; won five College World Series titles with Cal State Fullerton and Texas; retired in 2016 with an NCAA-record 1,975 wins.
Augila-Nafoora Oil Field
Augila-Nafoora, also written Nafoora-Augila or Nafoura, is a giant onshore oil field in the eastern Sirte Basin of Libya that peaked at over 380,000 barrels per day in 1969.
Augite
Augite is the most common pyroxene mineral, a dark green to black rock-forming silicate, and a principal constituent of mafic igneous rocks like basalt and gabbro, named from the Greek for luster.
Augment Code (Augment Inc.)
Augment Code, also known as Augment Inc., is a Palo Alto startup building AI coding assistance for enterprise software teams, founded in 2022 by Igor Ostrovsky and Guy Gur-Ari.
Augmenta
Augmenta (Augmenta Agriculture Technologies) was a Greek agritech startup founded in Athens in 2016 that built a retrofit camera-and-AI device for variable-rate crop application, acquired by CNH Industrial in 2023 for $110 million.