AN
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An, AN, aN, or an may refer to:
Businesses and organizations
[edit]- Airlinair (IATA airline code AN)
- Alleanza Nazionale, a former political party in Italy
- AnimeNEXT, an annual anime convention located in New Jersey
- Anime North, a Canadian anime convention
- Ansett Australia, a major Australian airline group that is now defunct (IATA designator AN)
- Apalachicola Northern Railroad (reporting mark AN) 1903–2002
- AN Railway, a successor company, 2002–present[update]
- Aryan Nations, a white supremacist religious organization
- Australian National Railways Commission, an Australian rail operator from 1975 until 1987
- Antonov, a Ukrainian (formerly Soviet) aircraft manufacturing and services company, as a model prefix
Entertainment and media
[edit]- Antv, an Indonesian television network
- Astronomische Nachrichten, or Astronomical Notes, an international astronomy journal
- Avisa Nordland, a Norwegian newspaper
- Sweet Bean (あん), a 2015 Japanese film also known as An
Language
[edit]- An, English indefinite article
- Anglo-Norman language
- Aragonese language (ISO 639-1:2002 language code AN)
- Algemeen Nederlands (meaning "Common Dutch"), the official Dutch language
- A variant of the prefix "in", used before vowels to convey the meaning "not" (for example: aneuploid means "not euploid")
Mathematics, science, and technology
[edit]- An, in mathematics, a root system and its Dynkin diagram
- An, in mathematics, conventional notation for the alternating group
- an, a generic label for a term of a sequence
- AN thread, Army and Navy thread - for bolts and tube fittings in 16th inch increments
- Acanthosis nigricans, a skin condition
- Acrylonitrile, an organic compound and monomer used in the manufacture of certain plastics
- Actinide (An), informal symbol for a series of chemical elements
- Ammonium nitrate (AN), a chemical compound
- Anode, in electronic schematics
- Anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder
- Application note (in engineering), most often seen as A.N.
- Attonewton (aN), an SI unit of force
- Anorthite, a feldspar mineral
- Adobe Animate, an Adobe animation software
Military
[edit]- A prefix used by the U.S. military for electronic equipment named under the Joint Electronics Type Designation System
- A US Navy hull classification symbol: Net laying ship (AN)
- Avtomat Nikonova used for the AN-94
Names
[edit]- Ahn (Korean name) (安)
- An (surname) (安), Chinese surname
Places
[edit]- An County, in Sichuan, China
- Agios Nikolaos (disambiguation), a common place name in Greece and Cyprus
- Province of Ancona, a province of Italy (ISO 3166-2:IT code AN)
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a territory in southeastern India (ISO 3166 code AN)
- Anderson County, Kansas (state county code AN)
- Andorra (FIPS, LOC MARC and obsolete NATO country code AN)
- Angola (World Meteorological Organization country code AN)
- Netherlands Antilles (ISO country code AN)
Religion
[edit]- An (Shintō), a small table or platform used during Shinto ceremonies
- Anu or An, a god in Sumerian and Babylonian mythology
Other uses
[edit]- Associate degree in nursing
- Algebraic notation (chess) (AN[citation needed]), the standard system for recording moves in chess