List of Acronyms and Initialisms: A - AS

AS

  • as – (i) Adult swim – (s) Assamese language (ISO 639-1 code) – Attosecond
  • aS – (s) Attosiemens
  • As – (s) Arsenic
  • AS – (s) American Samoa (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram) – Australia (FIPS 10-4 country code) – Assam / Asom (Indian state code)
  • AS – (i) ActionScript
  • A/S – (i) Anti-submarine
  • A&S – (i) Armament & Standardisation
  • ASA – (i) AcetylSalicylic Acid – American Standards Association – Army Security Agency – Atlantic Southeast Airlines
  • ASAP – (a) As Soon As Possible
  • ASARS – (a) Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System – Airborne Search and Rescue System
  • ASB – (i) Associated Student Body – Alternative Service Book (Church of England)
  • asbl – (i) association sans but lucratif (French "Non-profit organisation")
  • ASBO – (a) Anti-Social Behaviour Order
  • ASCAP – (a) American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
  • ASCC – (i) Army Service Component Commander – Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator – Air Standardization Coordinating Committee
  • ASCIET – (i) All Services Combat Identification Evaluation Team
  • ASCII – (a) American Standard Code for Information Interchange
  • ASC+T – (i) Anti Slip Control + Traction
  • ASD – (i) (U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense – autism spectrum disorder
  • ASD(C3I) – (i) (U.S.) (Command, Control, Communications, & Intelligence)
  • ASD(FMP) – (i) (U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Force Management Policy)
  • ASD(HA) – (i) (U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs)
  • ASD(ISA) – (i) (U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs)
  • ASD(ISP) – (i) (U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Policy)
  • ASD(LA) – (i) (U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Legislative Affairs)
  • ASD(PA) – (i) (U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)
  • ASD(RA) – (i) (U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Reserve Affairs)
  • ASD(SO&HA) – (i) (U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Special Operations & Humanitarian Assistance)
  • ASD(SO/LIC) – (i) (U.S.) (Special Operations & Low-Intensity Conflict)
  • ASD(S&R) – (i) (U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Strategy & Requirements)
  • ASD(S&TR) – (i) (U.S.) Assistant Secretary of Defense (Strategy & Threat Reduction)
  • ASDIC – (a) Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee (Sonar)
  • ASEAN – (a) Association of South East Asian Nations
  • ASFAR – (a) Americans for a Society Free of Age Restrictions
  • ASG – (i) Area Support Group
  • ASIC – (a) Australian Securities and Investments Commission – (a) Aviation Security Identification Card
  • ASICS – (a) Anima sana in corpore sano (Latin, "A sound mind in a sound body") (athletic shoe manufacturer)
  • ASIO – (a) Australian Security Intelligence Organisation – (a) Audio stream input output
  • ASIP – (i) Advanced System Improvement Program – Army Stationing and Installation Plan – Application-specific instruction-set processor
  • ASL – (i) Above Sea Level – American Sign Language (also known as Ameslan) – "Age, Sex, Location?" (Internet slang)
  • asm – (s) Assamese language (ISO 639-2 code)
  • ASM – (i) Air-to-Surface Missile – (s) American Samoa (ISO 3166 trigram) – (i) American Society for Metals – (i) American Society for Microbiology
  • ASMB – (i) American Society for Matrix Biology – Adult Swim Message Board
  • ASME – (i) American Society of Mechanical Engineers – American Society of Magazine Editors
  • ASMP – (i) Air-Sol Moyenne Portée missile (French "Medium-range air to surface") – (p) Asymmetric multiprocessing
  • ASN – (i) Associate of Science in Nursing
  • ASOC – (a/i) Air Sovereignty Operations Centre – Air Support Operations Centre – Airport Security and Operations Centre – Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition – Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus – Australian Standard Offence Classification
  • ASP – (i) Active Server Pages – American Society of Primatologists – Ammunition Supply Point – Application Service Provider (cf internet service provider) – Astronomical Society of the Pacific – Association of Surfing Professionals
  • ASPI – (i) Australian Strategic Policy Institute
  • ASR – (i) Alkali-silica reaction – Anti Slip Regulation
  • ASRAAM – (a) Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile
  • ASSC – (i) Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
  • Ass Paym – Assistant Paymaster
  • AST – (i) Atlantic Standard Time (UTC-4 hours)
  • ASTIA – (a) Armed Services Technical Information Agency
  • ASTM – (i) American Society for Testing and Materials
  • ASTREA – (a) Aerial Support To Regional Enforcement Agencies (sheriff's air support unit)
  • ASUW – (p) AntiSUrface Warfare
  • ASVAB - Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery(taken by juniors in high school in the USA)
  • ASVEL – (a) Association Sportive Villeurbanne Éveil Lyonnais (Association Sportive is French for "Sporting Association"; the club was founded through the merger of AS Villeurbanne and Éveil Lyonnais)
  • ASW – (i) AntiSubmarine Warfare
  • ASWORG – (i) (U.S.) AntiSubmarine Warfare Operations Research Group
  • ASX – (p) Advanced Stream Redirector – Australian Securities Exchange

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