Ansa or ANSA can refer to any of the following:
- Ansa (queen), 8th century, wife of Desiderius, king of the Lombards
- Ansa means constant in Arabic. Ansa or Ansia was the wife of Desiderius, King of the Lombards. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language
- Ansa (Hinduism) (Aṃśa) in Hinduism, is a solar deity and one of the Adityas. In Hinduism, the Ādityas are a group of Devas or celestial gods the sons of Āditi and Kashyapa.
- As the acronym ANSA:
- ANSA (news agency), Italian news agency
- Applied Neuroscience Society of Australasia
- Alliance of Norwegian Students Abroad
- Australian Network of Student Anthropologists, student-run arm of the Australian Anthropological Society. Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata, best known with initials ANSA, is one of main press agencies in the world and by far the most important one in Italy Ansa Mediterranean (also ANSAmed) is a section of the Italian News agency ANSA. The Applied Neuroscience Society of Australasia (ANSA is a non-profit professional organization for applied Neuroscience in Australia with members in Australia New Zealand and Asia Association of Norwegian Students Abroad (ANSA Norwegian Organisasjonen for norske studenter i utlandet, German Allianz Norwegischer Studenten im Ausland, French
- ANSA: Italian Manufacturer of OEM exhaust systems for automobiles.
- ANSA Pre-processor, commercial pre-processing software (Automatic Net-generation for Structural Analysis). ANSA is a CAE tool for Finite Element Analysis widely used in the automotive industry
- Afhgan National Standards Association, the ISO representative organization for Afghanistan.
- ANSA is the Planet of the Apes parallel to NASA and it is never made clear in the movies what the letters actually stand for. Planet of the Apes is a 1968 Science fiction / thriller film directed by Franklin J
- Ansa is Latin for handle. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It has several uses derived from this meaning:
- In astronomy, one of the apparent ends of the rings of Saturn as seen in perspective from the earth: so-called because, in the earlier telescopes, they looked like handles projecting from the planet.
- In the plural, ansae, in astronomy, compact nebulosities such as can be found in protoplanetary nebulae. A protoplanetary nebula or preplanetary nebula (PPN is an Astronomical object which is at the short-lived episode during a Star 's rapid Stellar
- In anatomy the word is applied to nervous structures which resemble loops (for example, the ansa lenticularis, ansa cervicalis, and ansa nephroni). The ansa lenticularis ( ansa lentiformis in older texts is a part of the brain making up the superior layer of the substantia innominata of Meynert. The ansa cervicalis (or ansa hypoglossi in older literature is a loop of Nerves that are part of the Cervical plexus. In the Kidney, the loop of Henle is the portion of the Nephron that leads from the Proximal convoluted tubule to the Distal convoluted tubule
- In archaeology it is used for the engraved and ornamented handle of a vase, which has often survived when the vase itself, being less durable, has disappeared. Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from Greek grc ἀρχαιολογία archaiologia – grc ἀρχαῖος archaīos
- In chemistry it is used to describe a bridge between to functional groups/ligands. bicyclic molecule contains two fused Aliphatic rings. Fusion can occur in three ways At two mutually bonded atoms or Across a sequence of atoms
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- (astronomy) the most protruding part of planetary rings as seen from distance
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