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Auroville
Auroville (City of Dawn) is an experimental international township in Tamil Nadu/Puducherry, India, founded 28 February 1968 by Mirra Alfassa, the Mother; governed by the Auroville Foundation Act 1988 with about 3,300 residents against a planned 50,000.
Aurubis
Aurubis AG is a Hamburg-based German metals company, founded in 1866 as Norddeutsche Affinerie and renamed in 2009, producing about 1.1 million tonnes of copper cathodes a year.
Aurunca Chasmata
Aurunca Chasmata: a 290-km tectonic canyon system on Saturn's moon Dione at 11.56 N, 266.70 W, one of six Wispy Terrain fault units, IAU-named March 17, 2008 after an old town in Campania, Italy.
Auryn
Auryn was a Spanish boy band of five members formed at the end of 2009, best known for three number-1 albums and an MTV Europe Music Award before splitting in 2016.
Ausar Thompson
Ausar Thompson, NBA guard-forward for the Detroit Pistons, twin of Houston's Amen Thompson; Overtime Elite two-time champion and Finals MVP, drafted fifth overall in 2023, known for defense and playmaking.
Auscam Biopharma (澳斯康生物（南通）股份有限公司)
Auscam Biopharma (澳斯康生物, Thousand Oaks Biologics Inc.) is a Chinese biologics CDMO and cell culture media maker in Haimen, Nantong, founded by Luo Shun in 2017.
Auschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz (Oświęcim), the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp complex in occupied Poland (1940–1945), including Auschwitz II-Birkenau; about 1.1 million people murdered, roughly one million of them Jews, liberated by the Red Army on 27 January 1945.
Auschwitz Sonderkommando revolt
Sonderkommando revolt at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, October 7, 1944: Jewish crematoria workers attacked SS at Crematorium IV using smuggled gunpowder, set it on fire, and attempted escape; about 250-400 prisoners died, four women executed.
Auscultation
Auscultation: listening to internal body sounds, mainly heart and lungs, with a stethoscope. Invented by Laennec in 1816; accuracy is modest (VHD sensitivity ~44% for GPs), now augmented by AI digital stethoscopes.
Ausgrid
Ausgrid is an Australian electricity distribution network service provider supplying about 1.8 million customers across Sydney, the Central Coast, and the Hunter Valley in New South Wales since 2011.
Ausiàs March
Ausiàs March (ca. 1400–1459) was a Valencian knight and poet writing in Catalan, regarded as the foremost poet of medieval Catalan literature and a major European voice of his century.
Auska Dorsum
Auska Dorsum is a 361-km-long dorsum (ridge belt) on Venus at 59.90N, 357.80E, IAU-approved in 1985 and named for a Lithuanian goddess of sun rays.
Auskang Biopharmaceutical (澳斯康生物)
Auskang Biopharmaceutical (澳斯康生物) is a Chinese biologics contract development and manufacturing organization and cell culture media producer headquartered in Haimen, Nantong, Jiangsu, founded in 2017.
Auslan
Auslan, also known as Australian Sign Language, is the sign language of the Australian Deaf community, developed from British and Irish sign languages from the nineteenth century.
Ausonia Mensa
Ausonia Mensa is an IAU-named (1991) flat-topped remnant massif on Mars in Hesperia Planum near 30S, 98E, about 102.5 km across, rising 3,700 m above basaltic layers, with eroded craters and channels.
Ausonia Montes
Ausonia Montes is a 333 km diameter IAU-named mountain range on Mars at 25.42 S, 99.04 E, near the northeastern Hellas rim; named from an Antoniadi albedo feature in 1991 and enlarged in 2012 to absorb Tyrrhena Mons.
Ausonius
Ausonius, full name Decimus Magnus Ausonius (c. 310 – c. 393), was a Gallo-Roman poet and professor of rhetoric from Bordeaux who tutored the future emperor Gratian.
Auspicious Cranes
Auspicious Cranes (瑞鶴圖) is a celebrated 1112 ink-and-color silk handscroll attributed to Northern Song emperor Huizong, depicting twenty cranes above the palace gates of Kaifeng.
Auspicious Incident
Auspicious Incident (Vaka-i Hayriye), June 1826: Sultan Mahmud II crushed a Janissary revolt, abolished the corps, banned the Bektashi order, and founded the Asakir-i Mansure-i Muhammediye, enabling Ottoman military modernization.
Aušra
Aušra (Dawn) was a Lithuanian monthly periodical published in East Prussia from 1883 to 1886, the founding organ of the Lithuanian national revival that shaped the standard language.
Aušrā Dorsa
Aušrā Dorsa (Ausra Dorsa) is an 859-km ridge belt on Venus at 49.4N, 25.3E, named for the Lithuanian dawn goddess. It lies southeast of Maxwell Montes, sits in a trough, and is interpreted as compressional underthrusting, once proposed as a candidate subduction zone.
Aussie Shore
Aussie Shore is a Paramount+ Australian reality series, the first Australian version of the Shore franchise (Jersey Shore, Geordie Shore). Housemates live and party in Cairns under House Boss Charlotte Crosby; season 3 moves to the Gold Coast with Tammy Hembrow.
Aussiedler and Spätaussiedler
Aussiedler and Spätaussiedler are legal terms for ethnic Germans who migrated to Germany after 1950. They received immediate citizenship and are defined by a special admission procedure.
Aussières
Aussières, a lieu-dit of Narbonne (Aude, Occitanie), is the Domaine/Château d'Aussières, a 559-hectare Corbières wine estate in the Fontfroide massif owned by Domaines Barons de Rothschild (Lafite) since 1999, organic since 2022.
Austal
Austal is an Australian shipbuilding and defense company headquartered at Henderson, Western Australia, founded in 1988, with shipyards in Australia, the United States, the Philippines, and Vietnam.
Austempered ductile iron
Austempered ductile iron (ADI) is ductile cast iron given an austempering heat treatment that converts its matrix to ausferrite, allowing it to replace steel in many applications.
Austempering
Austempering is a heat treatment for ferrous metals in which parts are quenched into a bath above the martensite start temperature, forming tough bainite in steel or ausferrite in ductile iron.
Austen Riggs
Austen F. Riggs is an American biochemist known for hemoglobin research, trained under George Wald at Harvard and long based at the University of Texas at Austin.
Austenite
Austenite, also known as gamma iron (γ-Fe), is the face-centered cubic solid solution of carbon in iron, the parent phase from which pearlite, bainite, and martensite form in steel.
Austenitic stainless steel
Austenitic stainless steel, also called austenitic steel, is the most widely used family of stainless steels, with a face-centered cubic structure stabilized by nickel, nitrogen, or manganese.