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Accredited Social Health Activist
Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA), India's community health worker cadre created in 2005 under the National Rural Health Mission; about one million trained women, one per ~1,000 people, honorary volunteers paid by performance incentives, bridging villages and public health services.
Accretion disk
An accretion disk, also called an accretion disc, is a rotating disk of gas and dust around a massive object such as a young star or black hole.
Accretion onto stellar-mass black holes
Accretion onto stellar-mass black holes is the process by which gas from a companion star spirals inward through a disk, heating to about 10 million K and emitting X-rays.
Accretionary wedge
An accretionary wedge, also called an accretionary prism, is a body of sediment scraped off a subducting tectonic plate and thrust onto the overriding plate at a convergent boundary.
Accrington Stanley F.C.
Accrington Stanley F.C., an English football club in EFL League Two, formed 1968 after the original Stanley (League member 1921-1962) folded; Conference champions 2006, League Two champions 2018, home Wham Stadium.
Accriva Diagnostics
Accriva Diagnostics was a San Diego, California maker of point-of-care hemostasis, cardiovascular, and anti-platelet diagnostics, formed in 2013 from Accumetrics and acquired by Werfen in January 2017.
Accropode
The Accropode is a bulky, unreinforced concrete armor unit that protects breakwaters, invented by Sogreah in France and introduced in 1980 as the first single-layer armor unit.
Accrual
Accrual, or the accruals concept, is the accounting recognition of assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses when earned or incurred rather than when cash moves; both US GAAP and IFRS require it.
Accrual anomaly
The accrual anomaly is the finding that firms with high accounting accruals earn lower subsequent stock returns, first documented by Richard Sloan in a 1996 study of US stocks.
Accrued liabilities
Accrued liabilities, also called accrued expenses, are expenses a company has incurred but not yet paid or invoiced, so costs land in the period they belong to.
Accton Technology
Accton Technology (智邦科技) is a Taiwanese network equipment company founded in 1988, headquartered in Hsinchu City, that designs Ethernet switches and wireless products as an ODM for cloud data centers.
Accu Sa Pira Nuraghe
Accu Sa Pira Nuraghe is a Bronze Age nuraghe (stone tower) west of Villasimius, Province of Cagliari, Sardinia, at 39.137679N 9.508935E; catalog code 8723 in the Regional Landscape Plan.
Acculturation
Acculturation: cultural and psychological change under sustained first-hand contact between cultures, defined by Redfield, Linton, and Herskovits (1936); covers Berry's four strategies (integration, assimilation, separation, marginalization), mental health findings, and measurement debates.
Accumulated cyclone energy
Accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) is an index measuring tropical cyclone and seasonal activity by summing squared sustained wind speeds, used by NOAA to classify hurricane seasons.
Accumulation by dispossession
Accumulation by dispossession is a concept introduced by David Harvey in 2004 to replace Marx's primitive accumulation, describing privatization, land seizure, and financialization as continuous means of capital accumulation.
Accumulation zone
The accumulation zone is the higher part of a glacier where annual accumulation from snowfall, wind drift, and avalanches exceeds ablation, separated from the ablation zone by the equilibrium line.
Accumulative roll bonding
Accumulative roll bonding (ARB) is a severe plastic deformation process, first reported at Osaka University in 1998, that repeatedly rolls, cuts, and restacks sheet metal to produce ultrafine-grained, high-strength sheet.
Accumulator (computing)
An accumulator is a CPU register that supplies one operand of an arithmetic or logic operation and receives the result, holding intermediate values in multistep calculations.
Accuracy and precision
Accuracy and precision, often confused, are distinct in metrology: accuracy is a measurement's closeness to the true value, precision the closeness of repeated measurements to each other.
Accuracy International
Accuracy International is a British manufacturer of precision bolt-action sniper rifles, founded in 1980 in Portsmouth, England, and best known for the Arctic Warfare rifle family.
Accuracy International Arctic Warfare
The Accuracy International Arctic Warfare is a family of bolt-action sniper rifles made by the British company Accuracy International, designed for cold weather and adopted in dozens of countries.
Accuracy International AWM
The Accuracy International AWM, or Arctic Warfare Magnum, is a British bolt-action sniper rifle made by Accuracy International in Portsmouth, used as the L115A3 by British Forces.
Accusative case
Accusative case: the grammatical case marking direct objects in nominative-accusative languages, also used for direction, extent, and prepositional objects; one of the eight reconstructed Proto-Indo-European cases, with a reconstructed original goal-of-motion function.
Accused (2023 film)
Accused (2023 film), Philip Barantini British thriller starring Chaneil Kular as Harri, a young man wrongly accused on social media after a London bombing; vigilantes invade his home. Distinct from the 2026 Hindi Netflix film of the same name.
Accused (2023 TV series)
Accused (2023 TV series): American Fox crime anthology developed by Howard Gordon from Jimmy McGovern's 2010 BBC series; 15-episode season 1 premiered January 22, 2023; each episode opens in a courtroom on a defendant, told from the defendant's point of view; renewed for an eight-episode season 2 in 2024.
Accused (2026 film)
Accused (2026) is a Hindi-language Netflix psychological thriller directed by Anubhuti Kashyap, starring Konkona Sen Sharma as London gynecologist Dr. Geetika Sen, accused of sexual misconduct, and Pratibha Ranta as her wife Meera; released February 27, 2026.
Accutron
Accutron is a tuning-fork electronic wristwatch introduced by the Bulova Watch Company in October 1960, the world's first tuning fork watch and first transistorized wristwatch, produced until 1977.
AccuWeather
AccuWeather, also known as AccuWeather.com, is an American commercial weather forecasting company founded in 1962 by Joel Myers in State College, Pennsylvania, selling forecasts, warnings, and data to consumers, media, businesses, and governments.
Ace
Ace: the single-pip playing card ("A"), from Latin/Old French as, "a single unit"; originally the lowest card, later highest in many games, and the source of idioms like "ace up one's sleeve."
Ace (band)
Ace (band): English pub rock band formed in Sheffield in December 1972 (originally Ace Flash and the Dynamos), led by Alan 'Bam' King and singer Paul Carrack; known for the 1974 hit 'How Long,' which reached No. 3 in the US and No. 20 in the UK. Disbanded July 1977 after three Anchor albums; distinct from Ace Frehley and the Los Angeles ACE band.