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AutoFlight (峰飞航空)
AutoFlight (峰飞航空), or Shanghai Fengfei Aviation Technology, is a Shanghai eVTOL developer founded in 2017, building the certified CarryAll cargo aircraft and the five-seat Prosperity passenger aircraft.
Autohome (汽车之家)
Autohome (汽车之家) is a Beijing-based Chinese online automotive media and transaction-services platform founded in 2005 by Li Xiang and listed on the New York and Hong Kong stock exchanges.
Autoliv
Autoliv, Inc. is a Stockholm-headquartered automotive safety supplier and the world's largest maker of airbags, seatbelts, and steering wheels, holding around 44% of the combined airbag and steering wheel market.
Autolus Therapeutics plc
Autolus Therapeutics plc is a London-based, Nasdaq-listed biopharmaceutical company spun out of University College London in 2014; its CAR T therapy AUCATZYL, for adult leukemia, won FDA approval in November 2024.
Automat
An automat is a self-service, waiterless restaurant where prepared food is sold from coin-operated glass compartments, reaching its peak in America through Horn & Hardart from 1902 to 1991.
Automated clearing house
An automated clearing house (ACH) is a batch electronic payment system in which banks exchange netted credit and debit entries, first built in the United States in the 1960s.
Automated teller machine
An automated teller machine (ATM) is an unattended computerized banking terminal that lets cardholders withdraw cash, check balances, and make deposits with a card and PIN.
Automatic stabilizer
An automatic stabilizer is a fiscal feature, such as the income tax or unemployment insurance, that widens deficits in downturns and narrows them in booms without new legislation.
Automatic writing
Automatic writing: text produced with reported loss of conscious control or authorship. Practiced by Surrealist poets from 1924, used in Victorian spirit mediumship, and studied via hypnosis, dissociation, and ideomotor mechanisms.
Automobile Club of Southern California
The Automobile Club of Southern California is a nonprofit AAA motor club founded in Los Angeles in 1900, headquartered in Costa Mesa with more than 7 million members.
Automotive industry in Brazil
Brazil's automotive industry is a state-nurtured manufacturing complex producing 2.64 million vehicles in 2025, built around flex-fuel ethanol engines and, since 2023, a rapid influx of Chinese electric-vehicle makers.
Automotive industry in France
The automotive industry in France is a sector of the French economy that designs and sells vehicles, comprising 4,080 companies, employing 329,000 people, and generating 1.1% of French GDP.
Automotive industry in Italy
The automotive industry in Italy is centered on Stellantis and luxury carmakers in Emilia-Romagna, with car output falling from a 1989 peak of about 2 million to 310,000 in 2024.
Autonomic Technologies (ATI)
Autonomic Technologies Inc (ATI) is a Redwood City, California medical device company, founded in 2007 as a Cleveland Clinic spinoff, that developed the Pulsante microstimulator for cluster headache.
Autonomism
Autonomism, or autonomist Marxism, is an anti-authoritarian Marxist current emerging from Italian operaismo (workerism) of the 1960s, centered on working-class autonomy, class composition, refusal of work, and later concepts like immaterial labor and the multitude.
Autonomous Charter of Puerto Rico
The Autonomous Charter of Puerto Rico (Carta Autonómica de Puerto Rico) was Spain's 1897 decree granting the island self-government, cut short by the 1898 US invasion.
Autonomous Medical Devices Incorporated (AMDI)
Autonomous Medical Devices Incorporated (AMDI), formerly Sensor-Kinesis Corp, is an American medical diagnostics company in Santa Ana, California, whose Fast PCR system won FDA clearance and a CLIA waiver in 2026.
Autonomous Region of Catalonia (1931–1939)
Autonomous Region of Catalonia (1931–1939): the self-governing Generalitat regime under the Second Spanish Republic, created after Macià's 1931 Catalan Republic proclamation, organized by the 1932 Statute of Núria, suspended in 1934, and abolished by Franco in 1938–1939.
Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus
The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus (Αυτόνομος Δημοκρατία της Βορείου Ηπείρου) was a short-lived Greek autonomous polity proclaimed in February 1914 in what is now southern Albania, under Georgios Christakis-Zografos.
Autonomy
Autonomy is the philosophical capacity for self-governance, living by one's own reasons and values. Covers Kantian moral autonomy, Millian liberty, Berlin's negative and positive liberty, paternalism, bioethics, and relational autonomy.
Autonomy of the Khuc family
The autonomy of the Khuc family was the period from 905 to 930 when three generations of the Khuc family ruled Vietnam from Dai La, ending effective Tang control.
Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity
Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity, or ARCH models, is a class of time-series models introduced by Robert F. Engle in 1982 in which variance depends on past shocks.
Autoregressive integrated moving average
The autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model, a univariate time-series forecasting method, is the central model of the Box–Jenkins tradition of identification, estimation, and diagnostic checking.
Autoregressive model
An autoregressive (AR) model is a time-series model that predicts a variable's current value from its own past values, first used by Udny Yule in 1927.
Autorité des marchés financiers (France)
The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) is France's independent public authority regulating financial markets, created in 2003 to protect savings, inform investors, and ensure markets function properly.
AutoScout24
AutoScout24, originally MasterCar AG, is a Germany-based online marketplace for new and used cars, founded in Munich in 1998 and owned by Hellman & Friedman since 2020.
Autostereogram
Autostereogram, or single-image random-dot stereogram (SIRDS, Magic Eye): a single flat image hiding a 3-D scene, invented by Christopher Tyler and Maureen Clarke in 1979 from Julesz's 1959 random-dot stereograms, viewed by diverging the eyes.
Autotech Ventures
Autotech Ventures is a Menlo Park, California venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Alexei Andreev and Quin Garcia, investing in ground transportation, mobility, and logistics startups.
AutoX
AutoX was a Chinese autonomous-driving startup founded in 2016 by former Princeton professor Jianxiong Xiao, which built fully driverless robotaxis and wound down around 2024–2025.
Autry Stephens
Autry Stephens (1938–2024) was an American oilman who drilled his first well in 1979 and built Endeavor Energy Resources of Midland, Texas, sold for about $26 billion in 2024.