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Ansa (Latin for "handle") or ANSA may refer to:
Organizations
- Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata, Italian news agency
- Ansa Mediterranean or ANSAmed, section of the above
- Applied Neuroscience Society of Australasia
- Association of Norwegian Students Abroad
Science and technology
Anatomy
- Ansa cervicalis, a loop of nerves that are part of the cervical plexus
- Ansa lenticularis, a part of the brain, making up the superior layer of the substantia innominata of Meynert
- Loop of Henle (ansa nephroni), a portion of a nephron in the kidney
- Ansa of the tympanal organ
Astronomy
- Ansae, compact nebulosities such as can be found in protoplanetary nebulae
- One of the apparent ends of the rings of Saturn
Computing
- Advanced Networked Systems Architecture, a 1990s, pre-CORBA, distributed systems architecture
- ANSA Pre-processor, commercial pre-processing software (Automatic Net-generation for Structural Analysis)
Other uses in science and technology
- Ansa (moth), a genus of moth
- In archaeology, the engraved and ornamented handle of a vase
- Bridge (chemical) between two functional groups/ligands
People
- Ansa, Queen of the Lombards (fl. 753–774), wife of Desiderius, king of the Lombards
- Ansa Ikonen (1913–1989), Finnish actress
- Tina McElroy Ansa (born 1949), African American novelist, filmmaker, teacher, and journalist
Other uses
- Ansa (Hinduism) or Aṃśa, a solar deity and one of the Adityas
- ANSA, equivalent of NASA in the 1968 film Planet of the Apes
- Armed non-state actors, a term used in political science
- National Security Advisor (United States), Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
See also
- Ansah, a given name and surname
- Anza (disambiguation)
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