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Attis
Attis (Ἄττης), consort deity of the Great Mother Cybele/Magna Mater of Anatolian origin, adopted into Greek and Roman religion; known for the self-castration myth, the Galli eunuch priests, and the March festival cycle.
Attitude (psychology)
In psychology, an attitude, or mental attitude, is a stable evaluation of a person, group, issue, or idea, learned rather than innate and ranging from negative to positive.
Attitude scale
An attitude scale is a psychometric instrument that measures a person's attitude by having them rate agreement with statements, most commonly in the Likert format.
Attorney at law
Attorney at law (attorney) is the formal US title for a licensed lawyer, interchangeable with lawyer in every state. Covers ABA-defined roles, conduct rules, licensure, and contrast with split solicitor/barrister professions.
Attorney general
Attorney general: the chief legal officer of a government, advising the executive and often overseeing prosecution. Descends from England's 1243 King's Attorney; exists in all 50 US states, the UK, Canada, and most democracies.
Attorney General for England and Wales
The Attorney General for England and Wales (AGEW) is the UK Government's chief legal adviser to the Crown, superintendent of the CPS and Serious Fraud Office, and holder of independent public interest functions; the current holder is Ellie Reeves KC MP.
Attorney General of India
The Attorney General of India (AGI), created under Article 76 of the Constitution, is the Government of India's chief legal adviser and topmost law officer. First held by M.C. Setalvad (1950); current incumbent R. Venkataramani, reappointed from 1 October 2025.
Attorney General of Ireland
The Attorney General of Ireland (Ard-Aighneacht na hÉireann) is the constitutional legal adviser to the Government of Ireland, its chief law officer, appointed on the Taoiseach's nomination.
Attorney General of Malta
The Attorney General of Malta is Malta's independent chief public prosecutor, an office created under British rule in 1832 and headed since 2020 by Victoria Buttigieg.
Attorney-General for Ireland
Attorney-General for Ireland: the pre-independence chief law officer whose functions passed under the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 to the Free State Attorney-General and continue in the modern constitutional office under Article 30 of the 1937 Constitution.
Attorney-General of Ceylon
The Attorney-General of Ceylon, formerly the Queen's Advocate of Ceylon, was the chief law officer and principal public prosecutor of Ceylon, renamed from Queen's Advocate in 1884.
Attorney–client privilege
Attorney-client privilege, the oldest common-law evidentiary privilege, protects confidential lawyer-client communications made to seek legal advice; it belongs to the client, has crime-fraud and third-party limits, and was reshaped for corporations by Upjohn (1981).
Attotude Inc.
Attotude Inc. is a private American technology company in Menlo Park, California, founded by Dave Welch and Joy Laskar to develop interconnect technology for AI and exascale data centers, raising about $140 million since 2024.
Attraction to transgender people
Attraction to transgender people: romantic and sexual interest toward trans individuals and its social context. Key findings: cis men respond more negatively than cis women, mediated by transphobia; perceived deception, non-disclosure, fetishization, and relationship survival after transition are central research themes.
Attralus
Attralus, formerly Aurora Bio, Inc., is a California clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company whose lead candidate zamubafusp alfa won FDA Fast Track designation for AL amyloidosis in 2026.
Attribute grammar
Attribute grammar: a context-free grammar extended with attributes and semantic rules, introduced by Knuth (1968, 'Semantics of Context-Free Languages'); synthesized and inherited attributes propagate values through parse trees for compiler semantics.
Attributes of God in Christianity
In Christian theology, the attributes of God are the qualities describing what God is in his essence, such as eternity, omnipotence, and holiness, distinct from God's names and actions.
Attribution (psychology)
Attribution (psychology): the process of assigning causes to behavior, from Heider's 1958 theory through Kelley's covariation model, Weiner's dimensions, and attribution biases such as the fundamental attribution error and self-serving bias.
Attrition warfare
Attrition warfare: a military strategy of wearing down an enemy through continuous losses in personnel, equipment, and supplies, or of its will to fight, rather than decisive battle; contrasted with maneuver warfare; seen in World War I and the Russia-Ukraine War.
Attunity
Attunity Ltd., also known as I.S.G. Software Industries Ltd., was an Israeli-founded data-integration software company, traded on NASDAQ as ATTU and acquired by Qlik for about $560 million in 2019.
Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten
Atuagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten, known as AG, is Greenland's oldest newspaper, formed in 1952 by merging the Greenlandic Atuagagdliutit, founded in 1861 as Greenland's first newspaper, and the Danish-language Grønlandsposten, founded in 1942.
Atul Bora
Atul Bora is an Indian politician who has served as president of the Asom Gana Parishad since 2014 and as a minister in the Government of Assam.
Atul Garg
Atul Garg (born 1957) is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party, elected to the Lok Sabha from Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, in 2024 after serving as a state minister.
Atum
Atum, also known as Atum-Ra, is an ancient Egyptian creator god and manifestation of the sun, attested from the Old Kingdom, whose main cult center stood at Heliopolis.
Atuna
Atuna was a small tributary kingdom of the Tabal region in Iron Age Anatolia, ruled by Askwisis and Kurti and listed by Tiglath-pileser III in the 8th century BC.
Atusparia Uprising
The Atusparia Uprising was an indigenous peasant rebellion that began in March 1885 in Áncash, Peru, led by Pedro Pablo Atusparia against the reinstated head tax and forced labor.
Au Lac
Au Lac (Âu Lạc) was an early Vietnamese state founded by Thuc Phan, reigning as An Duong Vuong, with its capital at Co Loa near Hanoi.
Au pair
Au pair: a young foreigner living with a host family, providing childcare and light housework for room, board, and stipend under cultural-exchange rules; US J-1 program caps work at 45 hours weekly; Norway abolished its scheme in 2024.
AU Small Finance Bank
AU Small Finance Bank is a Jaipur-headquartered Indian scheduled commercial bank that began in 1996 as a vehicle-finance company and became a small finance bank in April 2017.
Aubert Miraeus
Aubert Miraeus, also known as Aubert le Mire (1573–1640), was a Southern Netherlandish ecclesiastical historian and dean of Antwerp cathedral whose editions of medieval chronicles and charters founded Belgian ecclesiastical historiography.