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Maas is a Dutch
Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
 and North German
Low German

Low German or Low Saxon is any of the regional language varieties of the West Germanic languages spoken mainly in northern Germany and the eastern part of the Netherlands....
 surname
Surname

A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases a surname is a family name; the family-name meaning first appeared in 1375....
 allegedly from a short form of Thomas
Thomas (surname)

English, French, German, Dutch, Danish, and South Indian: from the medieval personal name, of Biblical origin, from Aramaic t?om?a, a byname meaning ?twin?....
.Many believe Maas to be a shortened Americanized form of the surname Moskowitz








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Maas is a Dutch
Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
 and North German
Low German

Low German or Low Saxon is any of the regional language varieties of the West Germanic languages spoken mainly in northern Germany and the eastern part of the Netherlands....
 surname
Surname

A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases a surname is a family name; the family-name meaning first appeared in 1375....
 allegedly from a short form of Thomas
Thomas (surname)

English, French, German, Dutch, Danish, and South Indian: from the medieval personal name, of Biblical origin, from Aramaic t?om?a, a byname meaning ?twin?....
.Many believe Maas to be a shortened Americanized form of the surname Moskowitz

People

  • Hermann Maas
    Hermann Maas

    Hermann Maas was a Protestantism Minister , a doctor of theology and named one of the Righteous Among the Nations, a title given by the Israeli organization for study and remembrance of the Holocaust - Yad Vashem, for people who helped save the lives of Jews during the Holocaust without seeking to gain thereby....
    , German pastor and opponent of Nazism
  • James Maas
    James Maas

    James Maas is a social psychology, Professor at Cornell University, and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow. He is best known for his work in the field of sleep research, specifically the relationship between sleep and performance....
    , American social psychologist, Professor at Cornell University, and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow
  • Kevin Maas
    Kevin Maas

    Kevin Christian Maas is a former Major League Baseball player. He was drafted by the New York Yankees in the 22nd round of the 1986 draft after attending the University Of California....
     (born 1965), American former major league baseball player
  • Melvin Maas
    Melvin Maas

    Melvin Joseph Maas was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota; born in Duluth, Minnesota, May 14, 1898; moved with his parents to St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1898; educated in the public schools; was graduated from University of St....
     (1898-1964), American Marine aviator and politician from Minnesota
    Minnesota

    Minnesota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States. The twelfth largest state by area in the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with just over five million residents....
    .
  • Peter Maas
    Peter Maas

    Peter Maas was an American journalist and author. He was born in New York City and attended Duke University. Maas had Dutch people and Irish people heritage....
     (1929–2001), American journalist and author
  • Paulus Johannes Maria Maas
    Paulus Johannes Maria Maas

    Paulus Johannes Maria Maas is a botanist from the Netherlands and a specialist in the flora of the neotropics. Maas has identified and named about two hundred fifty plants from the Burmanniaceae, the Costus Family , the Gentian Family , the Bloodwort Family , the Banana Family , the Olacaceae, the Triuridaceae, and the Ginger Family ....
     (born 1939), Dutch botanist and a specialist in the flora of the neotropics
  • Willard Maas
    Willard Maas

    Willard Maas was an United States experimental filmmaker and poet.He was the husband of filmmaker Marie Menken. The couple achieved some renown in New York City's modern art world of the 1940s through the 1960s, both for their experimental films and for their salons, which brought together artists, writers, filmmakers and intellectuals....
     (1906-1971), American experimental filmmaker and poet


Technology

  • MaaS
    Message Queuing As A Service

    Messaging as a Service is message oriented middleware or MOM deployed in a computing cloud using Software as a Service or SaaS model. When using MaaS, service subscribers access message queue and or topics to exchange data using Point-to-point communication or Observer_pattern patterns....
    , Message Queuing as a Service
  • MaaS, Monitoring as a Service


Miscellanea

  • Oedipa Maas is the fictional protagonist
    Protagonist

    A protagonist is the main Character of a drama or Narrative. The word "protagonist" derives from the Greek language p??ta????st?? , "one who plays the first part, chief actor." In the theatre of Ancient Greece, three actors played all of the main dramatic roles in a tragedy; the leading role was played by the protagonist, while the othe...
     in Thomas Pynchon
    Thomas Pynchon

    Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. is an American literature based in New York City, noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon spent two years in the United States Navy and earned an English studies degree from Cornell University....
    's The Crying of Lot 49
    The Crying of Lot 49

    The Crying of Lot 49 is a novel by Thomas Pynchon. The shortest of Pynchon's novels and often considered his most accessible, the book is about a woman, Oedipa Maas, possibly unearthing the centuries-old conflict between two mail distribution companies, Thurn und Taxis and the Trystero ....
    .
  • MAAS, Multimedia Analysis and Archive System
  • Maas, an open water racing shells manufacturer
  • A recording name for Ewan Pearson
    Ewan Pearson

    Ewan Pearson is an England electronic music producer/remixer who works under various aliases including Maas, Sulky Pup, Villa America, World of Apples, and Dirtbox....
  • An alternative name for Amasi
    Amasi

    Amasi is the common word for fermented milk that tastes like cottage cheese or plain yogurt. It is very popular in South Africa. Amasi is traditionally prepared by storing unPasteurization cow's milk in a calabash container or hide sack to allow it to ferment....
  • An alternative name for Maghas
    Maghas

    Known exclusively from Arabic sources, Maghas or Maas was the capital city of Alania, a medieval kingdom in the Greater Caucasus. Its location is uncertain, with some authors favouring North Ossetia and others pointing to Arkhyz in modern-day Karachay-Cherkessia, where three 10th-century churches still stand....
    , the capital city of the medieval kingdom of Alania
  • Kfar Ma'as
    Kfar Ma'as

    Kfar Ma'as is a moshav in central Israel. Located to the south of Petah Tikva on the edge of the Ono Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council....
    , a moshav in Israel
  • The German or Dutch name for the Meuse River
    Meuse River

    File:01-Namur-290305 JPG.jpgThe Meuse , is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea....
  • Mobility as a Service, Business use of mobile technology through an Internet-based information technology (IT) platform
  • Maas Biotek is the name of a fictional company in William Gibson
    William Gibson

    William Gibson is an American-Canadian science fiction author.William Gibson may also refer to:*William Gibson , English Catholic martyr...
    's Sprawl trilogy