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Apoha (अपोह)

Apoha (अपोह, anyāpoha, exclusion of the other) is Dignāga's Buddhist theory of word meaning, developed normatively by Dharmakīrti: a word like 'cow' means by excluding all non-cows, solving the problem of universals nominalistically; realist rivals Nyāya and Mīmāṃsā (Kumārila) objected.

Apolinario Mabini

Apolinario Mabini (1864–1903), the Sublime Paralytic, was Prime Minister and foreign secretary of the First Philippine Republic, Aguinaldo's chief adviser, author of the True Decalogue, and a U.S. exile on Guam 1901–1903.

Apollinaris of Laodicea

Apollinaris of Laodicea (Ἀπολινάριος), c. 310 to c. 390, was bishop of Laodicea in Syria whose teaching that the divine Logos replaced Christ's human mind was condemned at Constantinople in 381.

Apollo (Ἀπόλλων)

Apollo (Ἀπόλλων), Greek Olympian god of prophecy, music, healing, and archery, son of Zeus and Leto, twin of Artemis, born on Delos, worshipped above all at Delphi, where the Pythia delivered his oracle.

Apollo 11 missing tapes

Apollo 11 missing tapes: the original slow-scan television (SSTV) moonwalk recordings on one-inch telemetry tape from Goldstone, Honeysuckle Creek, and Parkes, judged erased for reuse in the early 1980s; broadcast copies survived and enabled NASA's 2009 restoration.

Apollo and Daphne

Apollo and Daphne (Greek myth): Apollo, struck by Eros's golden arrow, pursues the nymph Daphne (Δαφνη, 'laurel'), who is transformed into a laurel tree; aetiological myth behind Apollo's sacred laurel and the Pythian crown, told in Ovid's Metamorphoses and sculpted by Bernini.

Apollo Asset Backed Credit Company

Apollo Asset Backed Credit Company is a private credit company formed in Delaware in 2023 and sponsored by Apollo Global Management, investing in consumer finance, real estate lending, and trade finance.

Apollo Computer

Apollo Computer was an American maker of graphical engineering workstations, founded in 1980 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and bought by Hewlett-Packard in 1989 for $476 million.

Apollo Diagnostics

Apollo Diagnostics is an Indian diagnostics network operated by Apollo Health and Lifestyle Limited, a subsidiary of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise, linking franchised collection centers to central laboratories.

Apollo Endosurgery

Apollo Endosurgery was a medical device company in Austin, Texas, founded in 2005, that made endoscopic bariatric devices and was acquired by Boston Scientific in 2023.

Apollo Global Management

Apollo Global Management, formerly Apollo Management, is an American alternative asset manager founded in 1990 by Leon Black and other ex-Drexel Burnham Lambert employees, known for private credit and its insurer Athene.

Apollo Graph (Apollo GraphQL)

Apollo Graph, formerly Meteor Development Group, is a San Francisco company behind the Apollo GraphQL platform, pairing open-source client, server, and gateway tools with its paid GraphOS supergraph platform.

Apollo GraphQL

Apollo GraphQL is a technology company and platform building open-source tools like Apollo Client and Apollo Server, plus the commercial GraphOS platform, for GraphQL APIs.

Apollo Hybrid Value

Apollo Hybrid Value is a structured-equity private equity strategy and fund family managed by Apollo Global Management, whose third flagship fund closed at $6.5 billion in 2026.

Apollo Hybrid Value Overseas Partners

Apollo Hybrid Value Overseas Partners is a series of Delaware fund vehicles through which Apollo Global Management's Hybrid Value strategy raises capital from non-US and tax-sensitive investors.

Apollo Impact Mission Overseas Partners

Apollo Impact Mission Overseas Partners is a pair of 2020 Luxembourg and Delaware feeder funds raising capital for Apollo Global Management's Apollo Impact Mission strategy.

Apollo Infrastructure

Apollo Infrastructure is the dedicated infrastructure investing platform of Apollo Global Management, in operation since 2018, investing in power and renewables, transportation, digital, and social infrastructure.

Apollo Natural Resources Partners

Apollo Natural Resources Partners is the natural resources private equity fund family of Apollo Global Management, a series of Delaware limited partnerships raised since 2011.

Apollo Origination Partnership

Apollo Origination Partnership (AOP) is Apollo Global Management's flagship closed-end direct lending strategy, targeting large corporates with over $100 million of EBITDA in North America and Western Europe.

Apollo Overseas Partners

Apollo Overseas Partners is a family of parallel Delaware private equity fund vehicles, managed from Apollo's New York headquarters, through which investors subscribe to Apollo Capital Management's flagship buyout funds.

Apollo Quiboloy

Apollo Carreon Quiboloy, Filipino televangelist and founder of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) in Davao, 1985, calls himself Appointed Son of God; indicted in the US in 2021 for sex trafficking, arrested in the Philippines in September 2024, now facing extradition.

Apollo S3 Equity & Hybrid Solutions

Apollo S3 Equity & Hybrid Solutions is a family of equity secondaries and hybrid-capital funds managed by Apollo Global Management, whose flagship fund closed at about $5.4 billion in 2025.

Apollodotus I

Apollodotus I (Ἀπολλόδοτος) was an Indo-Greek king of the early second century BC whose square silver drachms became the standard for all later Indo-Greek kingdoms.

Apollonia (wife of Dryton)

Apollonia, also called Senmonthis, was a Greek-Egyptian woman of Pathyris in Upper Egypt who married the Cretan cavalry officer Dryton in 150 BC and is known through his family's bilingual papyrus archive.

Apollonian and Dionysian

Apollonian and Dionysian: Nietzsche's two opposing aesthetic principles from The Birth of Tragedy (1872), Apollonian order and form versus Dionysian intoxication and self-dissolution, unified in Greek tragedy.

Apollonius (dioiketes)

Apollonius was the dioiketes, chief financial official of Ptolemaic Egypt under Ptolemy II Philadelphos, serving about fifteen years until his dismissal and confiscation of property after 246 BC.

Apollonius of Tyana (Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Τυανεύς)

Apollonius of Tyana (Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Τυανεύς), first-century Pythagorean philosopher and miracle worker from Cappadocia, died 97 CE; known chiefly through Philostratus' heavily fictionalized Life of Apollonius, later compared with Jesus by Hierocles and answered by Eusebius.

Apolo Kagwa

Apolo Kagwa was the katikiro, or chief minister, of Buganda and chief regent during the minority of Kabaka Daudi Chwa, signing the Uganda Agreement of 1900 and writing foundational histories of the kingdom.

Apolo Kivebulaya

Apolo Kivebulaya, born Waswa in Buganda, was a Baganda Anglican evangelist, teacher, and priest who carried Christianity from Buganda into Toro and the Mboga and Ituri forest region of the eastern Congo.

Apologetics

Apologetics, also called fundamental theology, is the reasoned defense of a religious faith, best known in Christianity, where it provides rational warrant for Christian truth claims.