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In Euclidean geometry, an angle is the figure formed by two rays, called the sides of the angle, sharing a common endpoint, called the vertex of the angle. |
Asa may refer to:
People
Aṣa, stage name of Nigerian French singer-songwriter Bùkólá Elemide (born 1982)
Asa (name), a masculine given name, including a list of persons and fictional characters with the name
Asa (rapper), Finnish rapper Matti Salo (born 1980)
Asa of Judah, third king of the Kingdom of Judah
Asa people, an ethnic group of Tanzania
Places
Asa, Iran, in South Khorasan Province
Asa, Kwara State, a Local Government Area in Kwara State, Nigeria
Asa, Hardoi, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India
Asa River (disambiguation), various rivers
Other
Asa (album), 2013 Falkenbach album
Asa (raga), Indian format of musical rules
Åsa IF, a Swedish football club located in Åsa
Asa language, of the Asa people
Asa Station, Japanese railway station in San'yō-Onoda, Yamaguchi
Ása, genitive of Æsir, the predominant group among the Norse gods
Asa, or naboot, a staff used in Egyptian stick fencing
Aša or Asha, the Avestan language term for a concept of cardinal importance to Zoroastrian theology and doctrine
Asa, god of the Kamba people ethnic group in Kenya
asa, a Unix filter program that processes ASA carriage control characters
See also
Aasa (disambiguation)
ASA (disambiguation)
Åsa (disambiguation)
Ása or Æsir, Norse gods
Asia (disambiguation)
Aza (disambiguation) |
Acoustics is a branch of physics that deals with the study of mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. |
Atomic physics is the field of physics that studies atoms as an isolated system of electrons and an atomic nucleus. |
American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada. |
In computing, an applet is any small application that performs one specific task that runs within the scope of a dedicated widget engine or a larger program, often as a plug-in. |
Alternate history (also alternative history, althist, AH) is a genre of speculative fiction of stories in which one or more historical events occur and are resolved differently than in real life. |
In atomic theory and quantum mechanics, an atomic orbital is a mathematical function describing the location and wave-like behavior of an electron in an atom. |
Amino acids are organic compounds that contain amino () and carboxylate functional groups, along with a side chain (R group) specific to each amino acid. |
Alan Mathison Turing (; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. |
Area is the quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional region, shape, or planar lamina, in the plane. |
The astronomical unit (symbol: au, or or AU) is a unit of length, roughly the distance from Earth to the Sun and equal to about or ~8 light minutes. |
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. |
Actaeon (; Aktaion), in Greek mythology, son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, was a famous Theban hero. |
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. |
Athens ( ; ; (pl.) |
Anguilla ( ) is a British overseas territory in the Caribbean. |
This article is about communications systems in Anguilla. |
The Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands is an uninhabited external territory of Australia consisting of four low-lying tropical islands in two separate reefs, and the territorial sea generated by the islands. |
Acoustic theory is a scientific field that relates to the description of sound waves. |
Alexander Mackenzie, (January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892) was a Canadian politician who served as the second prime minister of Canada, in office from 1873 to 1878. |
Ashoka (; Brāhmi: 𑀅𑀲𑁄𑀓, Asoka, IAST: Aśoka), also known as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty, son of Bindusara, who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from to 232 BCE. |
The meaning of the word American in the English language varies according to the historical, geographical, and political context in which it is used. |
Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, and object-oriented high-level programming language, extended from Pascal and other languages. |
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco ( , ; born 28 November 1961) is a Mexican filmmaker. |
Arianism (, ) is a Christological doctrine first attributed to Arius (), a Christian presbyter from Ptolemais, Libya Arian theology holds that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who was begotten by God the Father with the difference that the Son of God did not always exist but was begotten within time by God the Father, therefore Jesus was not co-eternal with God the Father. |
Events
Pre-1600
30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic. |
Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Pius (19 September 86 – 7 March 161) was Roman emperor from 138 to 161. |
Events
Pre-1600
8 – Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats the Dalmatae on the river Bosna. |
The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), also known by its original name Rijndael (), is a specification for the encryption of electronic data established by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2001.
AES is a variant of the Rijndael block cipher developed by two Belgian cryptographers, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, who submitted a proposal to NIST during the AES selection process. |
Events
Pre-1600
1348 – Czech king Karel IV founds the Charles University in Prague, which was later named after him and was the first university in Central Europe. |
Anisotropy () is the property of a material which allows it to change or assume different properties in different directions, as opposed to isotropy. |
Alpha decay or α-decay is a type of radioactive decay in which an atomic nucleus emits an alpha particle (helium nucleus) and thereby transforms or 'decays' into a different atomic nucleus, with a mass number that is reduced by four and an atomic number that is reduced by two. |
Extreme poverty, deep poverty, abject poverty, absolute poverty, destitution, or penury, is the most severe type of poverty, defined by the United Nations (UN) as "a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. |
The Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage. |
Caesar Augustus (23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian, was the first Roman emperor, reigning from 27 BC until his death in AD 14. |
The geography of Antarctica is dominated by its south polar location and, thus, by ice. |
Transport in Antarctica has transformed from explorers crossing the isolated remote area of Antarctica by foot to a more open era due to human technologies enabling more convenient and faster transport, predominantly by air and water, but also by land as well. |
The geography of Alabama describes a state in the Southeastern States in North America. |
The governor of Alabama is the head of government of the U.S. state of Alabama. |
Apocrypha (, 'the hidden [things]') are the biblical books received by the early Church as part of the Greek version of the Old Testament, but not included in the Hebrew Bible, being excluded by the non-Hellenistic Jews from their canon. |
The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements, collectively known as the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS), regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica, Earth's only continent without a native human population. |
Alfred William Lawson (March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954) was a professional baseball player, aviator and utopian philosopher. |
Ames () is a city in Story County, Iowa, United States, located approximately north of Des Moines in central Iowa. |
Abalone ( or ; via Spanish , from Rumsen aulón) is a common name for any of a group of small to very large marine gastropod molluscs in the family Haliotidae. |
In Catholicism, an abbess (Latin abbatissa, feminine form of abbas, abbot) is the female superior of a community of nuns, which is often an abbey. |
The term abdominal surgery broadly covers surgical procedures that involve opening the abdomen (laparotomy). |
Abduction may refer to:
Of a person or people
Alien abduction, memories of being taken by apparently nonhuman entities from a different planet
Bride kidnapping, a practice in which a man abducts the woman he wishes to marry
Child abduction, the abduction or kidnapping of a young child (or baby) by an older person
Express kidnapping, a method of abduction where a small ransom that a company or family can easily pay is requested
International child abduction
Kidnapping, the taking away of a person against the person's will
Raptio, large scale abduction of women, either for marriage or enslavement
Tiger kidnapping, taking a hostage to force a loved one or associate of the victim to do something
Sciences
Abduction (anatomy), a type of movement which draws a structure or limb away from the median plane of the body
Abductive reasoning, a method of reasoning in logic
Media
Film and television
"Abduction" (The Outer Limits), a 2001 television episode
"Abduction," episode of Death Note, a Japanese animation television series
"Abductions" (Totally Spies! |
Abensberg () is a town in the Lower Bavarian district of Kelheim, in Bavaria, Germany, lying around 30 km southwest of Regensburg, 40 km east of Ingolstadt, 50 northwest of Landshut and 100 km north of Munich. |
Arminianism is a branch of Protestantism based on the theological ideas of the Dutch Reformed theologian Jacobus Arminius (1560–1609) and his historic supporters known as Remonstrants. |
The Alan Parsons Project were a British rock band active between 1975 and 1990, whose core membership consisted of Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson. |
In mathematics, the term "almost all" means "all but a negligible amount". |
Aromatic compounds are those chemical compounds (most commonly organic) that contain one or more rings with pi electrons delocalized all the way around them. |
An abbey is a type of monastery used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess. |
The Annales school () is a group of historians associated with a style of historiography developed by French historians in the 20th century to stress long-term social history. |
In modern physics, antimatter is defined as matter composed of the antiparticles (or "partners") of the corresponding particles in "ordinary" matter. |
Casa Batlló () is a building in the center of Barcelona. |
Parc Güell ( ; ) is a privatized park system composed of gardens and architectural elements located on Carmel Hill, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. |
Casa Milà (, ), popularly known as La Pedrera () or "The stone quarry", a reference to its unconventional rough-hewn appearance, is a Modernista building in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. |
In particle physics, every type of particle is associated with an antiparticle with the same mass but with opposite physical charges (such as electric charge). |
Kim Renard Nazel (born June 17, 1965), better known by his stage names Arabian Prince or Professor X, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and DJ. |
This day marks the approximate midpoint of summer in the Northern Hemisphere and of winter in the Southern Hemisphere (starting the season at the June solstice). |
Events
Pre-1600
870 – Treaty of Meerssen: King Louis the German and his half-brother Charles the Bald partition the Middle Frankish Kingdom into two larger east and west divisions. |
Events
Pre-1600
69 – Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Otho commits suicide. |
In mathematics, the associative property is a property of some binary operations, which means that rearranging the parentheses in an expression will not change the result. |
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is an American nonprofit corporation (classified as a 501(c)(3) organization in the United States) to support a number of open source software projects. |
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 or ADA () is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability. |
The Apple Computer 1, originally released as the Apple Computer and known later as the Apple I, or Apple-1, is a desktop computer released by the Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.) in 1976. |
Apatosaurus (; meaning "deceptive lizard") is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic period. |
Allosaurus () is a genus of large carnosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 145 million years ago during the Late Jurassic epoch (Kimmeridgian to late Tithonian). |
The AK-47, officially known as the Avtomat Kalashnikov (; also known as the Kalashnikov or just AK), is a gas-operated assault rifle that is chambered for the 7.62×39mm cartridge. |
The Atanasoff–Berry computer (ABC) was the first automatic electronic digital computer. |
The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountains () are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. |
Ancylopoda is a group of browsing, herbivorous, mammals in the Perissodactyla that show long, curved and cleft claws. |
An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, used to secure a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current. |
Anbar (, ,) also known by its original ancient name, Peroz-Shapur, was an ancient and medieval town in central Iraq. |
Anazarbus (, medieval Ain Zarba; modern Anavarza; ) was an ancient Cilician city. |
An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once. |
The Anadyr () is a river in the far northeast Siberia which flows into the Gulf of Anadyr of the Bering Sea and drains much of the interior of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. |
André-Marie Ampère (, ; ; 20 January 177510 June 1836) was a French physicist, mathematician and lay catholic who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics". |
Ammonia is a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula NH3. |
Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz. |
Albertosaurus (; meaning "Alberta lizard") is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaurs that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 71 million years ago. |
In computer programming, assembly language (or assembler language), sometimes abbreviated asm, is any low-level programming language in which there is a very strong correspondence between the instructions in the language and the architecture's machine code instructions. |
In the ancient Greek myths, ambrosia (, ) is the food or drink of the Greek gods, often depicted as conferring longevity or immortality upon whoever consumed it. |
Ambrose of Milan (; ), venerated as Saint Ambrose, was the Bishop of Milan, a theologian and statesman. |
Ambracia (; , occasionally , Ampracia) was a city of ancient Greece on the site of modern Arta. |
Amber is fossilized tree resin that has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times. |
Amalaric (; Spanish and Portuguese: Amalarico; 502–531) was king of the Visigoths from 522 until his death in battle in 531. |
The alphorn or alpenhorn or alpine horn is a labrophone, consisting of a straight several-meter-long wooden natural horn of conical bore, with a wooden cup-shaped mouthpiece. |
An army (from Latin arma "arms, weapons" via Old French armée, "armed" [feminine]), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on land. |
The family Alligatoridae of crocodylians includes alligators and caimans. |
Alders are trees comprising the genus Alnus in the birch family Betulaceae. |
Amos Bronson Alcott (; November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. |
Arachnophobia is a specific phobia brought about by the irrational fear of spiders and other arachnids such as scorpions. |
Alabaster is a mineral or rock that is soft, often used for carving, and is processed for plaster powder. |
Ahab (; Aḫâbbu [a-ḫa-ab-bu]; Achaáb; ) was the seventh king of Israel, the son and successor of King Omri and the husband of Jezebel of Sidon, according to the Hebrew Bible. |
In the realm of electronic technology, ASIC stands for "application-specific integrated circuit". |
Dasyproctidae is a family of large South American rodents, comprising the agoutis and acouchis. |
Algol , designated Beta Persei (β Persei, abbreviated Beta Per, β Per), known colloquially as the Demon Star, is a bright multiple star in the constellation of Perseus and one of the first non-nova variable stars to be discovered. |