Ans

Ans or ANS or variation, may refer to:

Places

• Ans, Belgium, a municipality in Belgium
• Ans, Denmark, a village in Denmark
• Angus, Scotland, UK; a council area by its Chapman code
• Ainsdale railway station, England, UK (by station code ANS)
• Andahuaylas Airport, Peru (by IATA airport code ANS)

People

• Ans (given name), a Dutch feminine given name
• Anna Nicole Smith, American model and actress

Organizations

• Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• Astronomical Netherlands Satellite, a Dutch X-ray satellite
• American Name Society
• American Nuclear Society
• American Numismatic Society, formerly the American Numismatic and Archaeological Society
• Artificial neural system, or Artificial neural network
• ANS Group of Companies, a news organization in Azerbaijan
• Armée Nationale Sihanoukiste, a Cambodian resistance group; see Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea
• Audubon Naturalist Society, an environmental organization based in the Washington, DC area

Chemistry and biology

• Adrenergic nervous system, adrenaline and noradrenaline neurotransmitters distribution in human body
• 8-Anilino-1-naphthalenesulfonic acid, a fluorescent chemical compound used as a molecular probe
• Anthocyanidin synthase, an enzyme in the leucocyanidin biosynthesis pathway
• Approximate number system, a hypothesized physiological basis for the sense of number
• Autonomic nervous system, part of the peripheral nervous system in the body

Technology

• .ans, an unofficial file extension for ANSI art
• Advanced Network and Services, a non-profit network service provider in the 1990s
• American National Standards, defined by the American National Standards Institute
• ans, a variable in MATLAB, created automatically when no output argument is specified, referring to the most recent answer
• ANS carriage control characters (or ASA control characters), for computer line printers
• Asymmetric numeral systems, coding in data compression
• Authoritative name server, a DNS server
• Air Navigation Services, as delivered by an Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP)

Music

• ANS (album), a box set from the British band Coil
• ANS synthesizer, a Russian photoelectric musical instrument

Other uses

• Al Ansar FC, a Lebanese association football club
• Amman National School, in Amman, Jordan
• Ansvarlig selskap, a Norwegian personal responsibility company model
• Algemeen Nijmeegs Studentenblad, a Dutch student magazine

See also

• All pages with titles containing ans
• All pages with titles beginning with Ans
• All pages with titles beginning with ANS
• AN (disambiguation)
• Answer (disambiguation), for which "Ans." may be an abbreviation