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Autonomous Region of Bougainville
Autonomous Region of Bougainville: autonomous island region of Papua New Guinea, also called AROB, governed by the Autonomous Bougainville Government under the 2001 Peace Agreement; 97.7% voted independence in 2019, with Parliament holding the final decision.
Autonomous Region of Catalonia (1931–1939)
Autonomous Region of Catalonia (1931–1939): the self-governing Generalitat regime under the Second Spanish Republic, created after Macià's 1931 Catalan Republic proclamation, organized by the 1932 Statute of Núria, suspended in 1934, and abolished by Franco in 1938–1939.
Autonomous regions of China
Autonomous regions of China (自治区): five provincial-level divisions, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Guangxi, Ningxia, and Tibet, governed under the 1984 Regional National Autonomy Law with minority self-government powers, now reshaped by the 2026 ethnic unity law.
Autonomous rendezvous and docking
Autonomous rendezvous and docking (RVD) is the spacecraft operation in which a chaser vehicle navigates to and mechanically joins a target with little human intervention.
Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Автономна Республіка Крим)
Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Автономна Республіка Крим), Ukraine's autonomous republic, temporarily occupied and annexed by Russia in 2014; UN resolution 68/262 affirmed Ukrainian sovereignty, and EU sanctions remain in force.
Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus
The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus (Αυτόνομος Δημοκρατία της Βορείου Ηπείρου) was a short-lived Greek autonomous polity proclaimed in February 1914 in what is now southern Albania, under Georgios Christakis-Zografos.
Autonomous republics and oblasts of the Soviet Union
Autonomous republics (ASSRs) and autonomous oblasts of the USSR were ethnically based units below the 15 union republics: 20 ASSRs, 8 oblasts, 10 okrugs by 1985, with constitutionally defined ASSR powers and Soviet of Nationalities representation.
Autonomous Robots
Autonomous Robots is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer and founded in 1994 in the Netherlands, covering the theory and applications of self-sufficient robotic systems.
Autonomous Solutions (company)
Autonomous Solutions, Inc. (ASI) is a privately held American robotics company in Mendon, Utah, founded in 2000, which automates industrial vehicle fleets with its Mobius software.
Autonomous spaceport drone ship
An autonomous spaceport drone ship, also known as a SpaceX drone ship, is an unmanned, self-positioning ocean platform on which a Falcon 9 booster lands for recovery at sea.
Autonomous stabilization of cat states
Autonomous stabilization of cat states is a quantum error correction technique that uses engineered dissipation, not measurement and feedback, to continuously hold a bosonic mode in Schrödinger cat states.
Autonomous system (Internet)
An autonomous system (AS) is a group of IP networks under a single routing policy, identified by an ASN and exchanging routes with other ASes using BGP.
Autonomous tractor
An autonomous tractor is a farm tractor that performs operations like tillage, planting, and spraying without a human operator, guided by satellite positioning and sensors.
Autonomous underwater vehicle
An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), also called an autonomous undersea vehicle or autonomous submarine, is an uncrewed, untethered underwater robot that executes pre-programmed missions without operator control.
Autonomy
Autonomy is the philosophical capacity for self-governance, living by one's own reasons and values. Covers Kantian moral autonomy, Millian liberty, Berlin's negative and positive liberty, paternalism, bioethics, and relational autonomy.
Autonomy Corporation
Autonomy Corporation, also known as HP Autonomy, was a British enterprise software company founded in Cambridge, England, in 1996, best known for its IDOL search platform.
Autonomy of the Khuc family
The autonomy of the Khuc family was the period from 905 to 930 when three generations of the Khuc family ruled Vietnam from Dai La, ending effective Tang control.
Autopen
Autopen: a mechanical signing machine that holds a real pen and replays a stored signature matrix. Used by US presidents since Truman; first used to sign a law by Obama in 2011; center of the 2025 Biden pardon controversy.
Autophagy
Autophagy (self-eating): conserved cellular process delivering cytoplasmic contents to lysosomes for degradation and recycling; types include macroautophagy, microautophagy, and chaperone-mediated autophagy; genes identified by Ohsumi, 2016 Nobel Prize.
Autophagy–apoptosis interplay
The autophagy–apoptosis interplay is the regulatory crosstalk between autophagy, the cellular recycling pathway, and apoptosis, linked through switches like the Bcl-2–Beclin 1 interaction and caspase cleavage of autophagy proteins.
Autophobia
Autophobia, also called monophobia, eremophobia, or isolophobia, is an intense irrational fear of being alone, diagnosed as a specific phobia and treated mainly with exposure therapy and CBT.
Autopilot
An autopilot, also known as an automatic pilot, is a system that controls an aircraft's attitude and direction using electrical, hydraulic, or digital systems, correcting errors automatically.
Autopista AP-7
The Autopista AP-7 (Autopista del Mediterráneo) is a Spanish motorway running in discontinuous sections along the Mediterranean coast from the French border to Guadiaro in Cádiz.
Autopista Nacional (Cuba)
The Autopista Nacional, coded A-1, is Cuba's principal expressway. Its first section reached Santa Clara in 1979 before the Special Period halted construction, leaving about 354 km open.
Autopolis
Autopolis (オートポリス) is a 4.674 km FIA Grade 2 racing circuit at 800 m elevation in Hita, Oita, Kyushu, Japan. Opened 1990, it lost a 1993 F1 slot to bankruptcy and now hosts Super GT and Super Formula.
Autopsy
Autopsy (post-mortem examination, necropsy): medical examination of a body after death by a pathologist. Two types, forensic (legally ordered) and clinical (hospital, consent-based); determines cause and manner of death, audits diagnoses, rates now under 10%.
Autopsy (band)
Autopsy is an American death metal band formed in 1987 in the San Francisco Bay Area by ex-Death drummer/vocalist Chris Reifert, Eric Cutler, and Danny Coralles; known for Severed Survival (1989), death/doom influence, a 1995 breakup, and a 2010 reunion on Peaceville.
Autoradiograph
An autoradiograph, also known as an autoradiogram, is an image made by letting radiation from a radioactive specimen expose a photographic detector, a technique called autoradiography.
Autoradiography
Autoradiography is an imaging technique that records the distribution of a radioactive substance within a specimen by placing it against photographic emulsion or film, mapping radiolabeled drugs in drug development.
Autorefraction
Autorefraction is an ophthalmic examination method in which an instrument called an autorefractor objectively measures a person's refractive error and estimates the spectacle prescription without subjective responses.