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Azi (scribe)
Azi was a scribe of Ebla, a 24th-century BC city-state in western Syria, known from signed and colophoned lexical tablets of the Royal Palace G archive.
Azibaal
Azibaal, also written Azi-Baal or Azbaal, was a king of the Phoenician island city-state of Arwad, appointed to the throne by the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal after his father Yakinlu's death.
Azide
An azide is a chemical species containing the three-nitrogen group N₃, a linear pseudohalide anion; sodium azide inflates airbags, while organic azides are versatile building blocks in click chemistry.
Azide–alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition
The azide–alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition, a [3+2] reaction of an organic azide with an alkyne, forms a 1,2,3-triazole; its copper-catalyzed variant, found in 2002, became click chemistry's defining reaction.
Azie Faison
Azie Faison Jr. (AZ), born 1964, Harlem crack-era cocaine distributor and partner of Rich Porter and Alpo Martinez; survived a 1987 shooting, later rapper, author of Game Over, and basis for Paid in Full's Ace.
Azigo
Azigo (also Okwe) is a mancala count-and-capture board game played by the Igbo in southeastern Nigeria, first described by Charles Partridge in 1905; distinct from a 2x10-board game of the same name.
Azilian
The Azilian (Azilien) is an Epipalaeolithic culture of western Europe after the Magdalenian, named for Mas-d'Azil, defined by curved backed points, red deer antler harpoons, and painted pebbles.
Azilsartan
Azilsartan (azilsartan medoxomil, Edarbi) is the eighth angiotensin II AT1 receptor blocker approved for hypertension, FDA-approved 2011, dosed 80 mg daily, with greater SBP-lowering than valsartan and olmesartan and diarrhea as its most common adverse reaction.
Azilsartan medoxomil
Azilsartan medoxomil (TAK-491, Edarbi) is an angiotensin II receptor blocker prodrug for hypertension, FDA-approved February 2011; 40-80 mg once daily, hydrolyzed to active azilsartan, ranked most efficacious ARB at 80 mg.
Azim Azimzade
Azim Azimzade (Əzim Əzimzadə; 1880–1943) was an Azerbaijani graphic artist and caricaturist, regarded as the founder of Azerbaijani caricature art and satirical graphics, best known for drawing for Molla Nasreddin.
Azim F. Shariff
Azim F. Shariff is a Canadian social psychologist and Canada 150 Research Chair of Moral Psychology at the University of British Columbia, known for research on religion and generosity.
Azim Premji (अज़ीम हाशिम प्रेमजी)
Azim Premji is an Indian business magnate and philanthropist who built Wipro into one of India's largest IT services firms and gave most of his wealth to education.
Azim Surani
Azim Surani, also known as M. Azim Surani, is a Kenyan-born British developmental biologist at Cambridge known for discovering genomic imprinting in mammals in 1984 and winning the 2025 Kyoto Prize.
Azim ud-Din I of Sulu
Azim ud-Din I, also written Alimuddin, was Sultan of Sulu who reigned 1735 to 1748 and again from 1764, known for revising the Sulu code of laws.
Azim-us-Shan
Azim-us-Shan (عظیم الشاں), born Muhammad Azimuddin, was a Mughal prince and viceroy of Bengal from 1697 who was proclaimed emperor in 1712 and died in the war of succession.
Azimacia
Azimacia was an ancient settlement of Roman North Africa near Cirta in present-day Algeria, known only from a Latin inscription found at the Hamma oasis; attested 30 BC-AD 300, Barrington Atlas 31 F4, Pleiades 305034.
Azimilide
Azimilide (NE-10064, azimilide dihydrochloride) is an investigational class III antiarrhythmic blocking both IKr and IKs potassium currents, developed by Procter & Gamble, tested in Phase 3 trials for atrial fibrillation and ICD patients but never approved.
Azimsulfuron
Azimsulfuron (DPX-A8947) is a DuPont sulfonylurea rice herbicide, an ALS inhibitor (HRAC B) used post-emergence at 6-35 g ai/ha against broadleaf weeds and sedges; EU approval expired 2021.
Azimuth
An azimuth is the horizontal angle measured clockwise from a reference direction, usually true north, to an object, expressed from 0 to 360 degrees in surveying, navigation, and astronomy.
Azimuthal equidistant projection
Azimuthal equidistant projection (aeqd): an azimuthal map projection showing true distances and directions from one chosen center point; neither equal-area nor conformal; used for polar atlas maps, aviation, radio, and seismic work.
Azimuthal quantum number
The azimuthal quantum number, also called the orbital or angular momentum quantum number, is the quantum number l that determines the shape of an atomic orbital and its angular momentum.
Azinphos ethyl
Azinphos ethyl (CAS 2642-71-9, Ethyl-Guthion) is an organophosphate acetylcholinesterase-inhibiting insecticide, C12H16N3O3PS2, once used on cotton, fruit, and vegetables; not registered in the US.
Azinphos methyl
Azinphos-methyl (Guthion, CAS 86-50-0) is a Bayer organophosphate insecticide for fruit and nut crops, first registered in 1959; phased out in the US by 2012 and Canada by 2004, but still approved in Australia in 2015, and listed under Rotterdam Convention Annex III.
Azipod
Azipod is an ABB electric azimuthing propulsion system, launched in 1990, with the motor in a submerged pod that rotates to drive and steer without a rudder.
Aziprotryne
Aziprotryne (CAS 4658-28-0) is a methylthio s-triazine herbicide for annual weeds in vegetables, used at 1.0–2.0 kg/ha, tested in peas against prometryne, with rainfall-dependent surface activity and cabbage damage risk when incorporated.
Aziridine
Aziridine, also called ethyleneimine or azacyclopropane, is a three-membered nitrogen heterocycle, a colorless liquid whose highly strained ring opens readily, making it a widely used synthetic intermediate for nitrogen-containing compounds.
Azirine
Azirine is a three-membered heterocycle containing one nitrogen atom and a double bond, the unsaturated analog of aziridine; only the 2H isomer is stable and synthetically useful.
Aziru
Aziru, also known as Azira, was ruler of Amurru, a kingdom in coastal Syria and part of Lebanon, succeeding his father Abdi-Aŝirta around 1345 BCE.
Azis (Васил Троянов Боянов)
Azis (Васил Троянов Боянов, Vasil Troyanov Boyanov, born 1978) is a Bulgarian pop-folk (chalga) singer of Roma origin known as the King of chalga; hits include Habibi and Sen Trope.
AZIsotopes (Arizona Isotopes Science Research Corp.)
AZIsotopes, legally Arizona Isotopes Science Research Corp., is a radiopharmaceutical company founded in 2017 that produces medical radioisotopes including strontium-82 at a cyclotron complex in Bunker Hill, Indiana.