ASPS
ASPS may refer to:* Advanced sleep phase syndrome, a sleep disorder in which patients feel very sleepy early in the evening* American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the largest plastic surgery specialty organization in the world

Ass
Ass may refer to:* The mammal Equus africanus asinus better known as the Donkey** Asinus subgenus* North American English informal term for buttocks* áss, one of the Æsir in Norse mythology* Ass , by Badfinger

Assagai (horse)
Assagai was an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred in Kentucky, he was sired by Warfare and out of the mare, Primary. Purchased by the international business tycoon Charles W. Engelhard, Jr., he was trained by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, MacKenzie Miller. At age three, Assagai was the top turf horse in the U.S

Assail
Assail may refer to:* Assail , a continent in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series* HMAS Assail , an Attack-class patrol boat* USS Assail , an Admirable-class minesweeper

Assailant
Assailant is a Swedish power metal band formed in 2004 formerly signed on the label Dockyard 1. Their debut album Nemesis Within was released in May 2006.-The Sound:

Assam
Assam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country

Assamese
Assamese refers to "related/associated to or belonging to Assam or the people/culture of Assam". It could mean any of the following or more:* Assamese people, people of Assam* Assamese language

Assassin (film)
Margaret Cho: Assassin is a stand up special performed by comedian Margaret Cho.

Assassin (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)
"Assassin" is a seventh season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent.-Plot summary:In this episode, Detectives Logan and Wheeler investigate a murder attempt against a woman, shortly after returning to the United States from South Asia

Assassin (novel)
Assassin is a historical fiction novel by the children's author Anna Myers.-Plot summary:The book begins with the story of Arabella "Bella" Getchel, who was taken hostage by John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of former President Abraham Lincoln, during the assassination at Ford Theatre itself.Wilkes, in the book's second chapter

Assassin (song)
"Assassin" is a single by The Orb. It was released as a stand-alone single in 1992 by Big Life and reached number twelve on the UK Singles Chart.

Assassin (video game)
Assassin is a video game for the Commodore Amiga system. It was developed by Psionic Systems and published in by Team 17. The game is an action game that has platform and shoot 'em up type gameplay. Assassin was updated and re-released in as Assassin: Special Edition.-Development:Assassin was developed by Psionic Systems in conjunction with Team 17

Assassination
To carry out an assassination is "to murder by a sudden and/or secret attack, often for political reasons." Alternatively, assassination may be defined as "the act of deliberately killing someone, especially a public figure, usually for hire or for political reasons."An assassination may be prompted by religious, ideological, political, or military motives;

AssassiNation
AssassiNation is the sixth album by Krisiun, released in 2006 on Century Media. It is dedicated In Memory of Doc and Dimebag.-Track listing:# "Bloodcraft" – 5:49# "Natural Genocide" – 4:29# "Vicious Wrath" – 3:54# "Refusal" – 4:49# "H.O.G

Assassination (1987 film)
Assassination is a 1987 action-thriller film about a bodyguard who is assigned to protect the First Lady of the United States against an assassination plot. The film was directed by Peter R. Hunt, and stars Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, and Stephen Elliott

Assassination (film)
, also known as The Assassin, is a 1964 film directed by Masahiro Shinoda.-External links:* at the Masters of Cinema website* at the Masters of Cinema website

Assassins (album)
1988 debut album from 80's group Into A Circle*LP Beneath Mikhail, Over + Over, The Swinging Tree, 'Elim, Forever, Allah Akhbar, Tender Skin, Evergreen, Assassins, Seraphin Twin-Track listing:# "Beneath Mikhail"# "Over + Over"

Assault
In law, assault is a crime causing a victim to fear violence. The term is often confused with battery, which involves physical contact. The specific meaning of assault varies between countries, but can refer to an act that causes another to apprehend immediate and personal violence, or in the more limited sense of a threat of violence caused by an immediate show of force

Assault (Gladiators)
Assault is an event played in several incarnations of the television series Gladiators. In this event, a contender must navigate their way across a number of safety stations aiming for a target located above the Gladiator who is standing on a raised podium with a tennis ball gun, their target being the contender.-Rules:One Gladiator

Assault rifle
An assault rifle is a selective fire rifle that uses an intermediate cartridge and a detachable magazine. Assault rifles are the standard infantry weapons in most modern armies

Assay
An assay is a procedure in molecular biology for testing or measuring the activity of a drug or biochemical in an organism or organic sample. A quantitative assay may also measure the amount of a substance in a sample. Bioassays and immunoassays are among the many varieties of specialized biochemical assays

Assegai
An assegai or assagai is a pole weapon used for throwing or hurling, usually a light spear or javelin made of wood and pointed with iron.-Iklwa:

Assel (The Netherlands)
Assel is a hamlet in the municipality of Apeldoorn in the Netherlands, located close to the village of Hoog Soeren.Assel is located roughly 12 kilometres west of Apeldoorn. Assel is a hamlet comprising twelve houses, a burial site, a chapel , a camping site and a restaurant

Assemblage
Assemblage is a term with uses in several fields:* Assemblage * Assemblage * Assemblage * Assemblage , a philosophical concept developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari* Fossil assemblage

Assemblage (album)
Assemblage is a compilation album by the British band Japan, released in 1981 by Hansa Records.Assemblage collects recordings from the band's early career and Hansa Records re-released no fewer than six singles from Assemblage and Japan's back catalogue between 1981 - 1983

Assemblage (journal)
Assemblage was "a critical journal of architecture and design culture" published by MIT Press from 1986 to 2000. Forty-one issues were published in total. It is full-text searchable on JSTOR.

Assemblies of God
The Assemblies of God , officially the World Assemblies of God Fellowship, is a group of over 140 autonomous but loosely-associated national groupings of churches which together form the world's largest Pentecostal denomination

Assemblies of God (disambiguation)
Assemblies of God may refer to:* World Assemblies of God Fellowship, the world's largest Pentecostal denomination. This fellowship, among others, includes:** Assemblies of God USA** Australian Christian Churches

Assembly
-Politics:* Deliberative assembly, An organization comprising members who use parliamentary procedure for making decisions* Freedom of assembly, the individual right to come together and collectively express, promote, pursue and defend common interests

Assembly (bugle call)
Assembly is a bugle call used to call in a group of soldiers or scouts. It is also sometimes referred to as "Fall in".

Assembly (film)
Assembly is a 2007 Chinese war-drama film written by Liu Heng and directed by Feng Xiaogang. It stars Zhang Hanyu, Deng Chao, Yuan Wenkang, Tang Yan, Wang Baoqiang, Liao Fan, Hu Jun, Ren Quan and Li Naiwen.

Assembly language
An assembly language is a low-level programming language for computers, microprocessors, microcontrollers, and other programmable devices. It implements a symbolic representation of the machine codes and other constants needed to program a given CPU architecture

Assent
Assent can refer to:* A Belgian village between Bekkevoort and Diest.* Offer and acceptance* Royal Assent

Assertion
The term assertion has several meanings:* Assertion , a computer programming technique* Logical assertion, logical assertion of a statement* Proof by assertion, an assertion as opposed to an argument

Assessment
Educational assessment is the process of documenting, usually in measurable terms, knowledge, skills, attitudes and beliefs. Assessment can focus on the individual learner, the learning community , the institution, or the educational system as a whole

Assessor (law)
In some jurisdictions, an assessor is a judge's or magistrate's assistant. This is in fact the historical meaning of this word.-By country:In Denmark, it was the former title given to Supreme Court judges. Today the title is given to Deputy Judges

Assessor (Oxford)
The Assessor is an official in the University of Oxford, in England. The position was created in 1960. The Assessor is responsible for student welfare.Former Assessors include Lawrence Goldman, John Landers, and Michael Mingos.-Sources:*

Assessor (property)
An assessor is a specialist who calculates the value of property. The value calculated by the assessor is then used as the basis for determining the amounts to be paid or assessed for tax or insurance purposes.

Asset
In financial accounting, assets are economic resources. Anything tangible or intangible that is capable of being owned or controlled to produce value and that is held to have positive economic value is considered an asset

Asset (disambiguation)
ASSET or Asset can refer to:Business* Asset, something possessed by a business entity from which future economic benefits may be obtained.* Asset, in employability a person's knowledge, skills and attitudes.Economics

ASSET (spaceplane)
-Winged Gemini:In the mid-1960s, McDonnell proposed a variant of the Gemini capsule which retained the original spacecraft's internal subsystems and crew compartment, but dispensed with the tail-first ballistic reentry, parachute recovery and water landing.

Asshole
The word asshole, a variant of arsehole, which is still prevalent in British and Australian English, is a term used pejoratively to describe the anus.-History:

Asshole (card game)
Asshole , an Americanized version of Dai Hin Min, is a card game for three or more in which players race to get rid of all of the cards in their hands in order to become President in the following round

Asshole (song)
"Asshole" is a song by Denis Leary, released as the only single from his album No Cure for Cancer. The song became a minor hit, thanks in part to the video, which gained airplay on MTV and MuchMusic in a censored form.

Assignment
'Assignment may refer to:* Assignment , a type of modification to a variable* Assignment , a task given to students by their teachers to be completed out of the class time.

Assimilation
Assimilation may refer to:*Assimilation , a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound

Assimilation (French colonial)
Assimilation was one ideological basis of French colonial policy in the 19th and 20th centuries. In contrast with British imperial policy, the French taught their subjects that, by adopting French language and culture, they could eventually become French. The famous 'Four Communes' in Senegal were seen as proof of this

Assis (disambiguation)
Assis may refer to:Places*Assis , a Brazilian municipality in the state of São Paulo*São Francisco de Assis, a Brazilian town*Assis Brasil, a Brazilian municipality in the state of AcrePeople

ASSIST
ASSIST is an IBM System/370-compatible assembler and interpreter developed in the 1970s at Penn State University by John Mashey and a group of Mashey's student assistants. Originally, ASSIST was available only to universities and was implemented at several hundred of them, but was occasionally used elsewhere

Assist
-Sports:Several sports have a statistic known as an "assist", generally relating to action by a player leading to a score by another player on their team:*Assist , a pass by a player that facilitates a basket by another

Assist (Scientology)
In Scientology, the Assist is described as a "process which is done to alleviate a present time discomfort".Despite the use of assists to treat pain and injuries, the Scientology Handbook states:

Assistant
Assistant may refer to:* The Assistant , a hardcore band from NJ* Assistant , a software tool to assist in computer configuration* The Assistant , an MTV reality show* ST Assistant, a British tugboat-See also:

Assistant (disambiguation)
Assistant may refer to:* The Assistant , a hardcore band from NJ* Assistant , a software tool to assist in computer configuration* The Assistant , an MTV reality show* ST Assistant, a British tugboat-See also:

Assistant referee (association football)
In association football, an assistant referee is one of several officials who assist the referee in controlling a match. Two officials, traditionally known as linesmen , stand on the touchlines, while a fourth official assists administrative or other match related tasks as directed by the referee

Associate
Associate may refer to:* A business valuation concept.* A title used by some companies instead of employee.* A title used to signify an independent person working as if directly employed by the company of which they are an associate

Associates
Associates were a Scottish post-punk and new wave band of the early 1980s. They were known for the operatic voice and theatrical antics of singer Billy Mackenzie, who committed suicide in 1997.-1979–1982: Associates mk. 1:

Association
Association may refer to:* Voluntary associations, groups of individuals who voluntarily enter into an agreement to accomplish a purpose** 501 non-profit organization** Alumni association, an association of former students of a college or university

Association (ecology)
An association is the "ultimate classification level" of ecological systems. Local conditions permit several understory species to coexist with the same overstory dominants, and associations refer to the many co-occurring species rather than just the few dominant ones.Associations have:#A relatively fixed floristic composition#A relatively uniform physiognomy#A tendency to occur in a

Association football pitch
An association football pitch is the playing surface for the game of association football made of turf. Its dimensions and markings are defined by Law 1 of the Laws of the Game, "The Field of Play".All line markings on the pitch form part of the area which they define

Assonance
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences, and together with alliteration and consonance serves as one of the building blocks of verse. For example, in the phrase "Do you like blue?", the is repeated within the sentence and is assonant.Assonance is found more often in verse than in prose

Assumption
In logic an assumption is a proposition that is taken for granted, as if it were true based upon presupposition without preponderance of the facts

Assumption (short story)
"Assumption" is Samuel Beckett's first published story, appearing in Transition magazine in June 1929, in the same issue as James Joyce's Work in Progress.

Assurance
Assurance may refer to:* Assurance services, offered by accountancy firms to improve the quality of information* Assurance , a Protestant Christian doctrine

Assyria
Assyria was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the mid–23rd century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia , that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history. It was named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur

Assyrian
-In antiquity:*ancient Assyria**the Old Assyrian period **the Middle Assyrian period **the Neo-Assyrian period *Either of two provinces of the Persian Empire:**Achaemenid Assyria

Assyrian people
The Assyrian people are a distinct ethnic group whose origins lie in ancient Mesopotamia

Assyriology
Assyriology is the archaeological, historical, and linguistic study of ancient Mesopotamia and the related cultures that used cuneiform writing. The field covers the Akkadian sister-cultures of Assyria and Babylonia, together with their cultural predecessor; Sumer

Astana
Astana , formerly known as Akmola , Tselinograd and Akmolinsk , is the capital and second largest city of Kazakhstan, with an officially estimated population of 708,794 as of 1 August 2010

Astana (disambiguation)
Astana is the capital of Kazakhstan.Astana may also refer to:* Astana Graves, a series of ancient tombs in Xinjiang, China* Astana , a professional road-cycling team

ASTAR (company)
Agrupacion Social Trabajadores Armeros, S.A.L., abbreviated as ASTAR, was a Spanish firearms company.STAR Firearms' remaining company assets were merged with Astra Firearms