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Ava Mcnaughton

Ava McNaughton (born 2004, Wexford, Pennsylvania) is an American ice hockey goaltender for the Wisconsin Badgers and Team USA. She won gold at the 2025 IIHF Women's Worlds and the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics, beating Canada 2-1 in the final.

Ava Michelle

Ava Michelle (Ava Michelle Cota), American actress, dancer, singer, and model born 2002 in Fenton, Michigan; Dance Moms alumna who starred as Jodi Kreyman in Netflix's Tall Girl (2019) and Tall Girl 2 (2022) and co-founded the Devon Michael Foundation.

Ava Pickett

Ava Pickett (born 1993, Essex) is an English playwright and screenwriter; her debut play 1536 won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and transferred to the West End, and she writes for The Great, Brassic, and a Joan of Arc film with Baz Luhrmann.

Ava Reid

Ava Reid (born 1996) is an American fantasy author, #1 New York Times bestselling for A Study in Drowning; debut The Wolf and the Woodsman (2021); also Lady Macbeth and Fable for the End of the World. Not the romance authors Rachel Reid or Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Ava Yaman

Ava Yaman, Turkish actress born 2006 in Istanbul; debuted as Özge in Bir Derdim Var (2023) and became famous as Eleni Miryano in TRT 1's Taşacak Bu Deniz (2025).

Avaaz

Avaaz is a global online campaigning organization founded in January 2007, co-founded by Res Publica and MoveOn.org with Ricken Patel as founding president, member-funded, working in many languages on climate, human rights, corruption, and misinformation.

Avachinsky

Avachinsky (Avacha volcano), an active Kamchatka stratovolcano near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 2,717 m, last erupted 2001; over 150 Holocene explosive eruptions, some VEI 5, after a 30,000–40,000-year-old sector collapse.

Avacopan

Avacopan (Tavneos, Vynpenta, Avacopan Vifor; CCX168) is an oral C5a receptor antagonist approved 2021 in Japan and the US as adjunctive therapy for severe ANCA-associated vasculitis, later retracted, suspended, and facing withdrawal.

Oct 22, 2026

Avadana

Avadana (Sanskrit: अवदान) is a Buddhist narrative genre in which stories of an individual's religiously significant deeds demonstrate karma and faith, composed in India from about the second century BCE.

Oct 22, 2026

Avadanashataka

Avadanashataka (Avadānaśataka, "century of noble deeds") is a Sanskrit collection of 100 Buddhist avadāna legends in mixed prose and verse, affiliated with the Sarvāstivāda school and probably composed around the 2nd century CE.

Avadh Assam Express (अवध असम एक्सप्रेस)

The Avadh Assam Express (अवध असम एक्सप्रेस) is a daily express train of Indian Railways, numbered 15909/15910 and operated by the Northeast Frontier Railway, running between Dibrugarh in Assam and Lalgarh Junction in Rajasthan.

Sep 21, 2026

Avadhesha Surolia

Avadhesha Surolia, born 1947, is an Indian biochemist and glycobiologist at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, known for lectin–carbohydrate recognition, protein folding, and the antimalarial action of triclosan.

Oct 22, 2026

Avadhya

Avadhya (अवध्य) is a Marathi play by Chintaman Tryambak Khanolkar, staged in 1972 in a production directed by and starring Amol Palekar, remembered as a landmark of experimental Marathi theater.

Avadi

Avadi (ஆவடி), a municipal corporation city in Thiruvallur district on Chennai's north-west edge; 65 sq km, 344,701 people (2011); India's tank-making hub with HVF, Engine Factory, CVRDE and AVNL headquarters.

Avadim Health

Avadim Health, formerly Avadim Technologies, was an Asheville, North Carolina healthcare company selling topical products like Theraworx Relief; it filed Chapter 11 in 2021 and sold its assets to Hayfin.

Avaiki Chasmata

Avaiki Chasmata: 580-km north–south trough and normal-fault system on the trailing hemisphere of Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon; IAU-named 2010 after the Cook Islands underworld; shallow fault slopes from viscous relaxation.

Availability

Availability is the probability that a repairable system is operational at a given point in time, calculated from mean time between failures and mean time to repair.

Availability analysis

Availability analysis is the engineering practice of estimating and improving the fraction of time a repairable system performs its specified functions, combining failure frequency with repair speed.

Availability heuristic

Availability heuristic: judging event frequency or probability by how easily instances come to mind, introduced by Tversky and Kahneman in 1973; related to representativeness, risk perception, and systematic biases like illusory correlation.

Available potential energy

Available potential energy (APE) is the portion of the atmosphere's potential energy convertible into kinetic energy, formally defined by Edward Lorenz at MIT in 1955.

Available water capacity

Available water capacity (AWC) is the amount of water in soil that plants can take up, held between field capacity and the permanent wilting point.

Availity

Availity is an American health information network company based in Jacksonville, Florida. Founded in 2001 as a joint venture between Florida Blue and Humana, it connects two million providers and health plans.

Aval (2017 film)

Aval (அவள்), aka The House Next Door (Hindi) and Gruham (Telugu), is Milind Rau's 2017 trilingual Indian supernatural horror film starring Siddharth, Andrea Jeremiah, and Anisha Victor, released 3 November 2017.

Oct 3, 2026

Aval Appadithan (அவள் அப்படித்தான்)

Aval Appadithan (அவள் அப்படித்தான், She Is Like That) is a 1978 Tamil black-and-white drama directed by C. Rudhraiya, starring Sripriya, Kamal Haasan, and Rajinikanth; a feminist cult classic that won Tamil Nadu State Film Awards.

Oct 3, 2026

Aval Oru Thodar Kathai (அவள் ஒரு தொடர்கதை)

Aval Oru Thodar Kathai (அவள் ஒரு தொடர்கதை), also Aval Oru Thodarkathai, is a 1974 Tamil drama directed and written by K. Balachander from M. S. Perumal's story, starring Sujatha as breadwinner Kavitha, with Kamal Haasan; it won the 1975 Filmfare Best Director award and was remade in four languages.